Feb 20 boot disk problems
Hi,
During an installation from the Feb 20 boot disks I ran into several
problems.
First, much of the explanatory material doesn't fit on the screen.
And there seems to be no way to scroll to read the rest of these messages!
Not very user-friendly.
I tried using the NFS method. It asked me to choose the directory under
the mount point where the archive resides. When I selected /hamm, it then
prompted
-- list
-- manual
I choose "list" and was returned the first step of the install (that is,
choosing color and then proceeding to keyboard config) and it changed the
screen to black and white when I had color. I was able to skip to the
already mounted method and pick up where I had left off (that was nice --
but should have been unnecessary). Still things were odd and the list of
allready mounted filesystems to choose from was duplicated 6 times:
disks-i386/1998-02-20
disks-i386/1998-02-20
disks-i386/current
Finally, and this one is very serious IMO, the /etc/fstab entries created
for my non-root partitions has "0" for the sixth (fs_passno) field.
Typically this should be "2". As a result, after a crash the non-root
filesystems are not repaired!
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