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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI errors 2.0.5 FreeBSD "sd0 timed out"
Date: 14 Sep 1995 18:01:32 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <439qls$a4i@helena.MT.net>
References: <42o73m$6vr@news.iag.net> <43194q$8tc@omega.ludd.luth.se> <436iic$8h2@wup-gate.wup.de> <438u6k$anp@wup-gate.wup.de>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <438u6k$anp@wup-gate.wup.de>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@wup.de> wrote:
>Andreas Klemm (andreas@wup.de) wrote:
>
>Yesterday I could dial into Net and saw, that -stable is a source
>tree ... Would it be possible / would it make sense to make a new
>Walnut Creek CD-Rom with the "current" "-stable" release for full
>installation ?!?!

-stable is the in tree that will become 2.1 when *ALL* of the
bugs are worked out of it.

>For me it would. I have problems with harddisk timeouts, sometimes
>the filesystem has strange directroy names with control characters ...
>I hope - as someone said - that the -stable kernel is really more
>stable and has done something good to the AHA-2940 driver.

It has.  The 2940 driver is much better now.

>Yesterday I tried to get the newest 2.1.0 SNAPSHOT. During installation
>over Internet the installation process from the new boot floppy failed
>completeley, because the max. number of inodes was reached, so the
>ppp.conf file couldn't be written ....
>
>So 2.1.0-...-SNAP's network installation via ftp seems to be broken
>for me...

Hmm, I've never seen that before.  How big is your root/usr partitions?


>I'd suggest to throw a more stable 2.0.5 onto market or
>to create a new SNAPshot based on -stable ...

Soon, real soon.



Nate
  
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