From marcus@cisco.com Sun Oct 25 10:12:47 1998 Received: from jclarke-pc.cisco.com (rtp-hw3-dhcp-198.cisco.com [161.44.18.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01899 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@cisco.com) Received: (from marcus@localhost) by jclarke-pc.cisco.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA00723; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:56:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus) Message-Id: <199810250656.BAA00723@jclarke-pc.cisco.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:56:09 -0500 (EST) From: jclarke@cisco.com Reply-To: jclarke@cisco.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: 3.0-RELEASE install bug X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 8446 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: DOS install option does not work in 3.0-RELEASE >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 25 10:20:01 PST 1998 >Closed-Date: Thu Mar 11 02:05:42 PST 1999 >Last-Modified: Thu Mar 11 02:06:26 PST 1999 >Originator: Joe Marcus Clarke >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. >Environment: Pentium 686 and 586 -class CPU 64 MB RAM, FAT32 DOS partition on wd0s1, booting 3.0-RELEASE floppy dated Oct 19, 1998. >Description: Using the latest 3.0-RELEASE floppy, the DOS install option does not work. With the same partition setup ,using the same 3.0 distribution files, the 2.2.7-RELEASE boot floppy does succeed when installing from a DOS partition. >How-To-Repeat: Boot from the 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy, ensure that a FAT32 partition exists on wd0s1 with a FREEBSD\BIN directory, and try to do a Minimal installation from DOS. It will fail. Then boot off the 2.2.7-RELEASE boot floppy, and do the same thing with the same distribution, and it will succeed in extracting the files. >Fix: No easy fix or work-around. Complicated workaround involving partial install with 2.2.7-RELEASE floppy, then rebooting using 3.0 and using the existing mount command to mount wd0s1 at a given mount point, then installing from file system. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dcs State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 11 02:05:42 PST 1999 State-Changed-Why: The problem has been fixed in -current and -stable. Thanks. >Unformatted: