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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: 2.0 Alpha Notes Date: 19 Nov 1994 12:54:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3akshr$mot@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <mmitchel.27.2ECCD346@alb.asctmd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <mmitchel.27.2ECCD346@alb.asctmd.com>, Mike Mitchell <mmitchel@alb.asctmd.com> wrote: > 1. I had a real pain in the butt getting the install floppies to work >properly with a freshly formatted SCSI drive. This drive did not even have an >initialized MBR from a previous OS installation. I booted DOS and finally >made a 1MB DOS partition using FDISK. FreeBSD then installed without any >complaints. I was able to delete the DOS partition using FreeBSD's fdisk >during the installation procedure. Sorry, this should be addressed in the BETA floppies. As has already been pointed out a number of times here, the ALPHA fdisk/disklabel code was purely as place-holder, and has been completely ripped out for BETA. > 2. The boot blocks appear to be slightly brain dead. The prompt 'Boot:' never >times out and loads the default kernel. Pressing 'Enter' fixes this problem. Fixed in BETA. > 3. I like the new "look" during the installation process. This gives FreeBSD >a more polished feel. More help screens would be nice. Thanks! I'd like to say that there will be more help screens in BETA, but... Knowing how these things go, that's definitely going to be Release material since people always write the doc at last minute! :-) > 4. Installing from the InterNet is a cool idea, but the script for doing >this is not so robust. I have a slow modem line and the script timed out >waiting for a connection to freebsd.cdrom.com. This worked fine once I had Sorry, I think this was due more to wcarchive being overloaded than anything else. I've put a list of mirrors into the BETA floppies. >5. Where is pppd? I was hoping I could connect to my InterNet provider... >Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait. You can still use SLIP. PPP is a little green just now, and I hope to have it in for Release. Jordan