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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problems : 2.0.5-RELEASE Date: 6 Jul 1995 02:07:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 54 Message-ID: <3tfggq$2ts@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3t4p8v$lq@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3t4p8v$lq@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote: >The machine is a Dell 433/L with a Phoenix 1.10 A12 BIOS and a Conner 420MB >hard disk. The main problem is that the Conner is detacted as a 340MB during >bootup and there doesn't seem to be any way to get 2.0.5 to change its mind! Hmmm. Nothing comes to mind here. >1. Disklabel editor hung when I did an "undo". Everything was ignored except > ^C. Undo's a big ropey there, yes. I'm working on it. >2. Timezone. After setting up my timezone for local time, Europe, Great > Britain (excluding N. Ireland) I was asked, at 6.16pm, What it tells you is, in fact, bogus and you should just say "yes, that's it EXACTLY! Gosh, what a smart install program!" and pretend really hard.. :-) It will come up with the correct time when you reboot. >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. Sure it does, use `space' like you do on all the other radio menus. This is convered in the usage guide. >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? I'm not sure. It has something to do with the way I switch the console away and I went mad for 2 days trying to fix it before giving up. I'll revisit this for 2.1. >BTW I used floppies to install, if that makes any difference (don't laugh - >I have a standalone computer, the CD isn't available here yet and the price >of local phone calls has just gone up by 15%, so the only sensible way to >do it is to download it at work onto floppies). I'm glad someone tested that part.. :-) >This isn't meant to be a flame - I'm a big fan of FreeBSD and have a lot >of respect and admiration for the people who work on it, but it's so >^%$%$@^%$ frustrating when you can't get something to work as well as you >know it's capable of. I know.. I felt the same way when the deadline was looming and I still had a lot of things I wanted to do.. :-) 2.1 will be a lot better scheduled than this, that much is certain. Jordan