freebsd 6.0 beta1/ppc on emac 1250mhz: install atempt report

[gil verthaim]

Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Gil,
>
>> *the installer copyed the files from the cd in a speed of aprrox 
>> 120kps with some halts every few minutes (this was done on an apple 
>> superdrive X4 wich a pioneer dvd-r/cdrw)
>
>
>  Does the speed ever get higher than this ? There are some parts of 
> the installation where large amounts of directories with small files 
> are being copied, so the throughput can be quite poor. However, when 
> untarring the base distributions, it shouldn't be too bad: probably in 
> the region of 800KBps.
>
i can recall one step where the speed was 600 kps +/- butt any other 
part was abaout that speed even in reltily few larger chuncks

>> *the installer treted the sun gem (GMAC) ethernet controller as an 
>> unidetifaid controller and failed to set up networking
>
>
>  Known problem, will be fixed in the next 6.0-beta.
>
>> *when i booted the installed sysem the system failed to find the 
>> system logger and paniced (couldt find a repport of this anywhare)
>
>
>  Did the system end up at the 'mountroot>' prompt on first boot ? If 
> you hit return there it will panic. You have to manually enter the 
> root partition e.g. "ufs:/dev/ad0s7".
>
>  If this is a different panic, would you be able to get a backtrace by 
> typing 'trace' at the ddb prompt ?
>
it is a diffrent after the mountroot> promt when the system bootes from 
the hard-drive normaly and then near the login promt it panics

> later,
>
> Peter.
>
>