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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!usenet 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 Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4adrba$507@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <1995Dec6.154738.1@ugun2a> Reply-To: shovey@buffnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: fppp22.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.2 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 > >============================================================================== >marcos@uni2a.unige.ch | PGP Key available on request | > | | >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >PGP 2.6.2 FingerPrint : B2 56 6E 00 FF 33 E1 3B C5 25 63 F0 9A A9 AB 42 >==============================================================================