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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Instalation problem : please help
Date: 12 Jun 1995 12:58:05 +0200
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Ricardo Pereira <ricardo.pereira@inesc.pt> wrote:
>Yesterday I spent all day trying to install FreeBSD 2.0, and allways
>came across the same problem:
>
>Every now and then (during the installation, with the system
>installed, whatever!), the processes kept being killed with messages
>of signals 10 and 11.
>
>I understand that there are new versions of the OS, but I'm not
>thinking of transfering it, without some prior idea that the patches
>will solve my problem.
Unless your problem is in hardware (e.g. memory timing problems, cache
consistency problems), it's most likely that FreeBSD 2.0.5 will solve
the problems.
However, you only need to get a new kernel and give it a try. While
many old binaries won't work with a new kernel (basically things like
IP routing have changed internal data structures), you can easily try
if the kernel would solve your troubles, and finally decide to get the
whole system (or not).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)