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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: 2.0.5 installation
Message-ID: <DCqoMK.Byv@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:37:30 GMT
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I installed 2.0.5 from CD yesterday, and I have a few problems/questions:
(1) The install went well until I tried to select UK keyboard from
the post-install menu. The system then rebooted with a message
about a non-existent menu item.
(2) What is a "holographic" shell :-)
(3) I kept getting messages during the installation "/mnt/usr:
optimisation changed from SPACE to TIME" and vice versa.
Now I expect these when a filesystem gets full, but this
was a 90Mb partition with only about 40Mb used.
(4) Slices: is there any documentation on just what has changed?
Why is / mounted from /dev/wd1a but /usr from /dev/wd1s2e?
I also want to be able to access pre-2.0.5 filesystems; I can
do this but the mount provokes verbose messages about partitions
not being wholly within the slice (in particular, the d
partition (whole disk) and the MSDOS partition. I take it
there's no way to use a disk with 1.1.5, 2.0 and 2.0.5 without
getting these warnings in 2.0.5?
(5) What is /stand for? Obviously it's intended to provide various
useful programs in some stand-alone mode, but what is the point
of replicating, say, cp when it's available in /bin and
statically linked? Or conversely, what's the point of having
tar in /usr/bin if it's already there in /stand?
(6) A problem which probably affects no-one but me: since 386bsd 0.0
I have had to delete the "hlt" instruction from the idle loop
in order to avoid random crashes. Removing it seems to do no
harm, and I observe that it's not there in NetBSD 1.0. What
is the point of it?
(7) (Unrelated to installation.) Does FreeBSD support Syquest or
Iomega cartridge drives? Do the SCSI versions just look like
disk drives?
-- Richard
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