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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!nic.tip.net!palantir.p.tvt.se!pp2.smc.south.telia.se!paul From: paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries) Subject: FreeBSD-2.0 Install... Message-ID: <1994Nov26.165503.2828@palantir.p.tvt.se> Sender: news@palantir.p.tvt.se (News account) Organization: Swedish Telecom X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 16:55:03 GMT Lines: 34 Yo guys... Maybe it's my turn to pick up the conical hat now, I don't mind as long as find out what went wrong... I tried to install FreeBSD-2.0R this morning (I'm still at it...) and there is a couple o' things that went a bit by west... First, I wanted to install the bindist from the Exabyte. No joy. The bloody thing is rst1 and the installscript insists on rst0. This should be selectable (hint, hint, hint... ;-)) Due to lack of terminators and manuals (they are at work...) I had a hellish time getting the thing to answer on /dev/rst0. Well, at last I managed it, but then again Murphy jumped up and poked me in the back. Yup, I got "error accessing rst0". Sigh. Exit to a shell, try /dev/rst0.1, yup it works... rm /dev/rst0, fix a symbolic link from rst0.1 to rst0. Does it work now? Nahhh... Well, what the heck, I'll do it manually... (clever, eh?) Ok, so I extracted the dist tape to an existing partition. No problem. Then I tried to install from UFS. The only thing I accomplished by this was to get the error: not a valid distribution". Sigh... Had to do it all "by hand". It worked, but... Sigh. The install program is nifty, but... well, sigh.. Oh, yes, I'm not whining nor am I complaining. I know that there has been put in a tremendous amount of work in the install procedure. It is just another install report... Cheers, Paul.