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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA problems... /bin/cat and /dev/sio*
Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:24:31 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <28hi3f$isb@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu>
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Keywords: FreeBSD sio problems

In article <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu>,
bryan o'connor <bryan@fegmania.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I tried installing FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA last night.  I ran into the following
>problems and would appreciate any help.  (If these are FAQs, please point
>me to the FAQ... I have looked).
>
> 1.  /bin/cat keeps disappearing.  At first I thought it was a cruel
>     joke.  After each extract, /bin/cat would disappear.  I ended up
>     copying it off the cpio floppy and extracting the savesets 
>     manually.  What's the deal?  Am I doing something wrong?

That was one of the problems with the old install disks.  If you would have
gotten the newer ones, it should have been fixed.

> 2.  I can't get the serial ports to work.  I MAKEDEV'd sio01 and sio02
>     and tried to use tip and cu.  They will connect and then give me
>     Input/Output errors and die.  Am I doing something wrong?
>     I fiddled with /etc/remote and added entries for sio01 and sio02.

Do a 
stty -f /dev/sio01 clocal

which should fix things up.


Nate

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