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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.ftech.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.d emon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anything wrong with 960323-SNAP? Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:04:35 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4vfc2j$9d@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <nwIHdXt@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote: : The 960323-SNAP installation I have here at work (since I don't use it : for anything but CD worm burning, I haven't booted it up much) seems to : have crapped all over its root partition. I had to boot the fixit : setup, fsck (which threw away an awful lot of the root fs), and replace a : bunch of missing stuff (including the kernel!). It's sort of back on its : feet now, but I can't for the life of me figure out what happened. Was : there anything in 960323-SNAP that was seriously wrong? I would think I : would have seen any notices about it, but... : The machine is a Compaq Deskpro XE 560. The drive is an IDE but it also : has a AHA 1520 SCSI card for the worm burner. I was trying to set up : a SCSI disk as a premastering volume. I halted the machine normally and : then it started failing to boot (the spinning baton would freeze loading : the kernel text). Solaris 2.5.1 works just fine on this machine. : So much of /sbin got cleaned out I'll probably have to upgrade it to : 960801 anyway (I fetched lots of files from home, which is running : 960501)... I've been running 960323 on my laptop since it came out. Works fine except for the nasty 3com NIC interrupt problems. I did shaft the entire /usr/lib directory at one point, but as I remember it was because I was playing.... -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....