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- From: piggy@HILBERT.MATHS.UTAS.EDU.AU (La Monte Yarroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Some Nettiqette (was Re: Is there any hope left?)
- Message-ID: <9301070120.AA22807@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 01:23:18 GMT
- References: <9212272140.AA14795@relay1.UU.NET> <9301051052.AA08505@invid.mwc.com>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
- Lines: 127
-
- 1) Postings like the following one should be handled by EMAIL--don't post
- stuff to the newsgroup if it isn't going to be of general interest.
-
- ONLY if email bounces should you post the the group. If email
- bounces, post only a brief article like:
-
- Mail to so-and-so <user@bum.dom> failed--can someone help me
- reach this person?
-
- 2) When you DO post, DON'T QUOTE THE WHOLE BLOODY MESSAGE! Try to
- pare down your quoted message to just the few lines that are relevant.
- People out there reading news don't want to wade through piles of
- quoted material to find your one line bon-mot. Furthermore, remember
- that thousands of organizations pay real money to move news--it is
- polite to keep your messages small to keep the load down.
-
- [The following is included as an example of what NOT to do.]
-
- BTW, cool machine name--I like it better than the old name :-).
-
- In comp.os.coherent you write:
-
- >What revision of Coherent do you have? Call! Tech support! at this point
- >it is worth the call. Ed MWC Tech Support
-
-
-
- >>
- >> I mailed the info below to MWC Support, but maybe someone else will be
- >> able to give me some advice (I really hope I am overlooking
- >> something). I have been rather unlucky in the installation and usage
- >> of Coherent so far, which I blamed on the flaky hardware. So, I just
- >> purchased a new computer, especially to run COH on it. Here are the
- >> specs:
- >>
- >> Motherboard Micronics Gemini 486/33 w/16 MB of memory
- >> BIOS Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS Plus Version 0.10 G17-2
- >> Disk Controller SCSI Adaptec 1542B
- >> Disk 340 MB SCSI Maxtor
- >> Video Oak 512 + VGA B&W monitor
- >> Keyboard Northgate Omni Key 101
- >>
- >> Since I wanted to be sure that it would work this time, I purchased
- >> (as you can see) all brand name components this time (at a
- >> considerable extra expense).
- >>
- >> This machine was to be used as a serial terminal server, so video was
- >> pretty much irrelevant.
- >>
- >> Yesterday and today I attempted 8 installations, all failed at various
- >> points. Here is the story of the 7 aborted installations last night:
- >>
- >> 1. While attempting to create a filesystem in the root partition (1):
- >>
- >> cr2=c399fce eax=ffc3a0d8 ebx=7 ecx=ffc3a0c8 edx=0 esi=ffc3a0c8
- >> edi=ffc3a0dc ebp=fffffc18 esp=fffffbe8 err #14 eip=ffc05c42 uesp=7
- >> cmd= efl=11097 sigcode=#11 User Trap
- >>
- >> 2. During copying files from the first diskette. I did not jot down
- >> the register dump.
- >>
- >> 3. During copying files from the first diskette:
- >>
- >> eax=fe70e8 ebx=ffc39cc8 ecx=ffc390e8 edx=0 esi=ffc390e8
- >> edi=ffc38f18 ebp=fffffac0 esp=fffffa90 cs=81 ds=21 es=13 fs=0 gs=0
- >> err #6 eip=ffc05bed uesp=ffc39cc8 cmd=cpdir efl=11002 sigcode=#14
- >> User Trap /nefl=41796 No Single Stepping the Kernel
- >>
- >> 42040f 1 2b3d7508 1 1 41ed 3 0
- >> 0 2a0 5a5 87b 0 0 0 0
- >> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2b3d7508
- >> 2a 75b0 7d 2a75b07d 0 560d01 0 2bsd74cb 0 0
- >>
- >> eax=1046 ebx=ffc40278 ecx=1246 edx=1246 esi=1246 edi=c ebp=fffffc20
- >> esp=fffffc04 cs=81 ds=21 es=13 ss=8f08 fs=0 gs=0 err #1
- >> eip=ffc0b2db uesp=ffc4026c cmd=cpdir efl=41696 bad kval ffc1f23c,
- >> 11(2)
- >>
- >> 4. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- >> hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- >> disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
- >>
- >> 5. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- >> hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- >> disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
- >>
- >> 6. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- >> hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- >> disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
- >>
- >> 7. Didn't get as far as in the previous 3. During the question "where
- >> do you want to mount it (regarding partition 2):
- >>
- >> eax=1c ebx=ffc394e8 ecx=21 e x=21 esi=ffc39394 edi=1286
- >> ebp=fffffc0c esp=fffffbe0 cs=81 ds=21 es=21 ss=13 fs=0 gs=0 err #6
- >> eip=ffc01fef ue p=1286 cmd=sh err #6 eip=ffc01fef uesp=1286 cmd=sh
- >> efl=11212 sigcode=#4 User Trap
- >>
- >> /etc/build: command "/bin/cho
- >> eax=0 ebx=4007d0 ecx=40115c edx=4 esi=0 edi=0 ebp=7ffffa2c
- >> esp=fffffce4 cs=b ds=13 es=13 ss=13 fs=0 gs=0 err #6 eip=7c21
- >> uesp=7ffffa1c cmd=build efl=11206 sigcode=a4 User Trap
- >>
- >> eax=ffc38ee4 ebx=4 ecx=ffc3900c edx=0 esi=ffc39004 e
- >>
- >> Today I tried the eight installation, this time without virtual
- >> consoles. It got to the point where it created the system and told me
- >> to take the floppy out. It started to throw registers on the screen
- >> and resetted computer. I proceeded with installation of remaining
- >> floppies after rebooting. While attempting to create passwords for
- >> user root I got message: "Cannot find passwd" "/etc/passwd: Command
- >> "passwd root" failed". Then, a moment later, while attempting to
- >> create a new user, I got another message, "Cannot find sort". Then,
- >> while uncompressing the dictionary, the whole machine froze (no drive
- >> lights of any kind, no register dump).
- >>
- >> Does anyone have any ideas??? I am beginning to give up on Coherent.
- >>
- >> Thanks,
- >>
- >> Tony
- >>
- --
- La Monte H. Yarroll Home: piggy@baqaqi.chi.il.us
- Work: piggy@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au
- AKA: piggy@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
- Once upon a time: postmaster@clout.chi.il.us
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