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From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Booting Release 0.1
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Date: 17 Jul 92 18:19:41 GMT
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In article <1992Jul17.165819.12985@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.144508.141852@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> root@rz.uni-konstanz.de writes:
>
>I didn't notice a list of known bugs in the distribution (I may have just 
>missed it).  Would someone in-the-know mind posting such a list?

List will go out with announcement shortly (gee, you guys are quick to notice).

>If you have a 1.44meg floppy instead of a 1.2, go ahead and blast the Tiny
>image onto it, it works fine.

Just one kind of distribution this time. No more 3.5 and 5.25 inch versions.

>Don't forget to copy the 'extract' program out of /tmp before going multi-user
>or you'll end up having to retrieve it from the <something>.cpio file on the
>Tiny diskette.  I, uh, didn't do this myself of course...

/etc/baseutils.cpio.Z . It does this on purpose, so that people don't
inadvertently re -extract by accident. Likewise install.

>I originally had problems with an WD8003E that worked fine under 0.0.  I think
>the 8003E may have problems using IRQ2 (unfortunately the default); still
>looking into it.  The error message was something like 'reject 65535' and
>was repeated frequently after the device was ifconfig'd.

A bug on the list. Quick fix is to comment out the ISOLAN (is) entry in
ioconf.c. It's a configuration conflict.

>Interestingly, 'ps aux' resulted in several errors including a 'floating point
>exception.'  'ps' still doesn't look for "command strings" properly, judging by 
>the output.

Yes. symbols.raw needs new entries, and we've got an involved bug in kvm.c


>Installation was incredibly smooth.  Kudos to whomever was involved in writing
>the 'install' program.  Installation and extraction are practically effortless.

Lynne did the installation mechanism, based on the (loud) suggestions of
a number of people who insisted on *not* wanting to write new disktab entries.

Bill.