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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!news.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck! Date: 17 Nov 1994 15:42:41 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 49 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov17074241@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: bs@Germany.EU.net's message of 16 Nov 1994 22:57:38 +0100 In article <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: I don't wish to be picky, but I find the brand-new FreeBSD install process rather annoying. Thank you, thank you, another satisfied customer! Step right up, folks! :-) What happens (on my box, anyway) is that the boot.flp is obviously not in a 4.2 ffs format, so I cannot easily read the stupid README. You can easily read the "stupid README" by simply booting the damn thing and hitting "return" at the right place (which, coincidently, happens to be selected by default). C'mon, Bernard, I know you're an intelligent person so this criticism seems merely petulant at best. Inserted into drive a: aka fd0, it sort of boots and then instead of giving me a decent init/sh pair, I just get this stupid GUI-like thingy that does terrible things to the disklabel on my wd1, what with partitions not appearing It does terrible things to your disklabel if you say "Proceed", not if you simply read the README, but I think we've probably moved on to the fdisk/disklabel editor here and you're mixing up the concept of "stupid GUI-like thingy" with that of "ALPHA stage Fdisk/Disklabel stuff that we've been saying all along is only temporary for the ALPHA". Whether or not it messes you up at all also seems to be a matter of opinion, as many folks have gotten 2.0A up just fine with a very minimum of fuss. On another note: I remembered seeing something about telling boot2 about booting -c so as to change the configuration. Well, changing ed0 to irq11 and io 0x334 does not seem to work; the irq is set to 0 :-( This is fixed in the newer/ floppies. BTW something fiddled with the software-set settings on the ed0 (SMC Elite 16 EtherCard Plus) to make it think it used irq3 and iomem 0x82000 which it doesn't. Must have been the ie0 driver acting up again - we've fixed the ed0 driver to get there quicker before it has a chance to mess you up, and this will be on the BETA boot floppies. So - my question is: is there a decent manual on how to use this stupid install program, and if so, where does one get it from ? I recommend you look on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu - there's this great operating system called ** NetBSD ** that I think you'd be MUCH happier running! :-) Jordan