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From: eddy@girtab.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD badness in installation
Date: 6 Sep 1994 18:45:27 -0700
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peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) writes:

>I installed FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on my IDE hard drive last night.  I got the
>three-disk system on the HD and up and running (i.e., I could boot off of
>the hard drive).  I grabbed bin_tgz.[a-c]*, put them in /usr/distrib,
>typed "extract", type configure (gave hostname, no Ethernet interface,
>configured /etc/resolv.conf anticipating future SLIP usage).  Configure
>told me to reboot.  I did.

>Now, after checking all the devices, I get a kernel panic, init dies,
>dumps, and the system reboots.

>How did I screw up?

i have had the same/similar problem.  to make it even worse on systems
that previously ran netbsd 0.9.  i'd like to hear any responses as well.

- thank you
-- 

- rusty

eddy@usc.edu