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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!ronnie From: ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Install Date: 02 Jun 1995 20:19:21 GMT Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <RONNIE.95Jun2131921@madhatter.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ronnie-ss10.cisco.com I think there's a bug in the (updated) boot floppy, for an "other" FTP site. I get complaints about badly formed URL, and the display of the URL name is clearly from a bad pointer. Loading from the primary FTP site, I always get a warning that the / partition failed to fully install. If the FTP session times out while waiting for you to tell it to continue, it is not smart enough to reopen a connection. Most people will walk away and come back after doing some other stuff. At 56Kb, this install takes a long time. I still can't mount my / partition--I get a panic when booting off of my hard disk. Is there any way to boot a standalone kernel from a floppy so I can take a look at what's going on on my hard disk? My system: 386DX 40MHz (ISA bus) IDE controller w/ 2 floppies E-IDE controller w/ 2 HDs disk 0: Connor 540Mb, all for DOS disk 1: Connor 120Mb, all for BSD 3COM Ethernet (3C509?) Genoa VGA Soundblaster-compatible audio card I am booting with -c and setting the port and irq for the ethernet, so it is found. I did notice that I set ie0 for it, and when I boot from HD, ep0 is found (and correctly identified as a 3C509 (or whatever the number is) so it doesn't probe for ie0). Ronnie -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronnie B. Kon | "You couldn't deny that, even if you used both hands" ronnie@cisco.com | (408) 526-4592 | -- The Red Queen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------