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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help for FreeBSD 2.0.5 with OPTi chipset Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:05:41 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 70 Message-ID: <3r57rl$b78@overload.lbl.gov> References: <3r2gce$fdu@overload.lbl.gov> <3r3utq$q2k@agate.berkeley.edu> <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <MMEAD.95Jun4013608@glock.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov Keywords: OPTi & FreeBSD 2.0.5 Yup, the new floppy fixes the major problems; It comes very fast and impressive. A couple of minor things connected with (1) and (2) need to be fixed later. For (1), it still needs to reboot twice to configure the 3C509B board. Once the 3C509B is configured, it will be found every time afterward. For (2), XF86config is on the path, but X is not. So, Xprobe is failed. I count 2.5 out of 3. :-) I saw the disscusions on the Slight flame from Linux user earlier, and I have not time to join it. Even before this point, however, I did not want to use linux at all (I played linux for about a couple of months) because I did not feel the Linux is comfortable comparing with many other O.S.s around the world. Well, the one merit of the linux that cannot be neglected is: Linux wildly supports many devices and motherboards. This is good for people to play on a great variety of machines for non-professional use (not consider the performance). Comparing the uers of linux, currently, BSD is a small group. However, beyond this point, the BSD will be used increasely and wildly since its easy installation interface and the BSD based operating system. I worked with a great number of machines and operating systems, the FreeBSD installation is the one of the most nice installation interface I ever used. I did not read any thing about FreeBSD installation and just start to play. Every thing comes straight forward, and the mistake can be easily corrected. The job is very easy and can be done quickly. The only place that confused me is the Partitioning. It actually is FDISK and creates virtual disk drives,, but not partitions. So, I think it should be called some name else, such as, Virtualizing or just FDISK. Many thanks for the people working on the FreeBSD. In article <3r3utq$q2k@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3r2gce$fdu@overload.lbl.gov>, >Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote: >>(1) Installation will not always detect the 3c509B (ep0). To get ep0 >> show up in FTP installation menu, I have to reboot a few times. > >I believe we've substantially improved this - check the latest >floppy set. > >>(2) XFconfig is not found during after installation configuration. > >"XFconfig"? You mean XF86config, I presume, and it wasn't found before >because you probably weren't getting XFree86 loaded due to another bug, >which we fixed.. :-) > >>(3) The wd is partitioned as wd0s1, wd0s2, and wds03. However, during >> the reboot (after installation), system seems to use wd0a for /. > >Documented in the editor help screen - there's a valid reason for that. > >> and says that fsck: /dev/wd0s3e, no sunch file or directory. So, >> /usr cannot be mounted, and everything failed. > >Different problem, and fixed in the latest floppies.. > >Hmmm. 3 for 3. Not bad! :) > > Jordan > -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |