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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck! Date: 22 Nov 1994 10:59:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3asiuv$m4@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <JKH.94Nov17185933@freefall.cdrom.com> <3asest$5pp@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3asest$5pp@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl>, Ben Suurmeijer <ben@hdpd1232.telecom.ptt.nl> wrote: >I've some remarks and suggestions: >- May be there should be a message 'wait until ready' while doing newfs > and so on. (I missed the part of booting from and the cpio-floppy) Done, thanks. >- I missed the extract.sh with the bindist, so I did the extracting > by hand. May be extract.sh should be in bindist-dir on the ftp-site Also done! >- When booting, the machine is looking for /386bsd but it should look > for /kernel, or am I doing something wrong? You needed to do a (W)rite from the fdisk menu in order to get the new boot blocks written out. This is documented better in the release. Jordan