Subject: install/7367: 1.4_ALPHA/i386 installation findings
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/12/1999 11:15:55
>Number: 7367
>Category: install
>Synopsis: 1.4_ALPHA/i386 installation findings
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 12 09:20:03 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ty Sarna
>Organization:
Endicor Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
>Release: 1.4_ALPHA
>Environment:
Asus PCI/I-486SP3G, AMD 486DX4-100, Quantum Fireball 1080S,
1.4_ALPHA snapshot, fresh install over Windows '95
>Description:
I tried a fresh, full-disk install over W95 on the above
machine. Here's what I found:
- Display corruption while running commands. The window commands
run in was missing parts of its right edge, and the text above
was garbled in several ways (failed to erase previous text
before drawing, addition of extranious text, intended text
seemed to be missing several characters at the start, etc.
While this doesn't interfere with the install, it looks *so*
bad as a first impression, and may cause people to give up
right then.
- Unable to fetch sets, due to single quotes ("unable to contact
host 'ftp"). I believe I saw that this has already been fixed.
- After fetching sets and unpacking by hand, on rebooting
the BIOS reported that the partition table was invalid.
Investigation showed that there were two active partitions:
0: sysid 0 (unused)
start 62, size 0 (0 MB), flag 0x80
beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
end: cylinder 1011, head 33, sector 62
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
start 62, size 2133234 (1041 MB), flag 0x80
beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
end: cylinder 1012, head 0, sector 1
(note, the above transcription is probably not
letter-for-letter accurate, but the essential
informtion is correct)
- Comment: since wscons is now the default, should the install
disk use it too? Might it help with the curses display
corruption?
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: