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From: garyb@buffnet.net (Gary Bacchetti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1R : Big install problems - Unstable system
Date: 10 Dec 1995 05:31:22 GMT
Organization: BuffNET
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In article <1995Dec6.154738.1@ugun2a>, marcos@uni2a.unige.ch (F. Marcos) says:
>
>
>As subject line says.., I'm having lots of problems installing FBSD 2.1R.
>
>I've been running 2.0R for 1 year on a 486DX2 with 8MB RAM and a 540 Meg IDE
>disk.
>
>When moving to 2.1R, I've added 32M RAM and a 2Gig SCSI disk with an Adaptec
>2842-VL controller.
>
>The partition scheme is as follows : IDE  : 456 Meg for DOS
>                                             64 Meg Swap
>                                             20 Meg root (/)
>                                     SCSI :  1100 Meg for DOS
>                                              800 Meg for /usr
>
>Now, my FBSD box could not stay stable for more than 5 hours.
>I've tried to install 2.1 from scratch, compile kernels with lots of differents
>options, slow down the SCSI transfer rate, add wait-states, etc...
>
>No way, after some time my file systems are completely damaged (/etc or /dev or
>/usr/share/lib completely destroyed)
>
>Am I doing something wrong ?
>Is there any known bug with my hardware ?
>
>Thanks in advance for your answers...
>


Are you mounting the dos partitions under freebsd?  that is known to
chew up everything.

> 
>
>F. Marcos
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