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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD badness in installation
Date: 7 Sep 1994 09:29:33 -0400
Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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In article <34j5vn$q31@girtab.usc.edu>,
George Edmond Eddy <eddy@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
>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.
Turns out the bin_tgz.* distribution I got was messed up. OK. When you
run the "extract" script it renames init, sh, and termcap, to init.XX,
sh.XX, and termcap.XX where XX is some number.
Fix:
1) Re-get the binary distribution. Make sure you check the checksums to
ensure that all is well.
2) Boot off of floppy. mount /dev/wd0a /mnt; mount /dev/wd0h /mnt/usr (or
whatever the appropriate devices are). cd /mnt; mv init.18 init (same for
sh and termcap).
3) Reboot.
4) Continue / finish the extraction. Check to make sure init wasn't
renamed again before rebooting.
Hope this helps.
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Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh
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