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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation Problems : 2.0.5-RELEASE
Date: 3 Jul 1995 16:09:33 +0200
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James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[Sorry, i cannot help with your biggest problem, the hard disk.]
>2. Timezone. After setting up my timezone for local time, Europe, Great
> Britain (excluding N. Ireland) I was asked, at 6.16pm,
> "does 05:15:10 5.0.96 GMT look reasonable" ?!! The only alternative I
> was given was to choose a different part of the UK to live in!!
(I've also noticed this, but didn't look into it yet.)
>3. In the menu to choose the location of the boot code, the only option
> that can be selected is the boot manager. Two others are shown, and the
> highlight can be moved to them, but the selection star doesn't change.
> This is particularly annoying as I selected the "use whole disk" option
> in the partition editor.
Hmm, did you use the space bar to mark your new choice? It worked for
me.
>4. When rebooting at the end, the "syncing disks... done" message comes up
> but the system doesn't reboot. This can only be achieved by switching
> to vty0 then back to vty1 and pressing a key. As the user has already
> been asked to confirm the reboot, why not reboot straightaway?
It's an error somewhere in the console handling (the console is
redirected to /dev/ttyv1). Anyway, if you hit (almost) any key, it
will magically reboot even if you haven't read to hit a key. :)
--
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. ;-)