Re: upgrade problems with 3.1 release

[dvv@internet-bg.net]

I put the box in  horizontal position last and it ran the POS test.
Then I booted the floppy and installed.Compaqs are quite quirky.
The trick is to burn the CD's as Theo does. The installer threats
the CD main dir as "/".
Mail me the topic of your msg and I will try to help you.
Stay cool,
Dimitar

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:37:04AM -0400, Reed L. O'Brien wrote:
> I had posted a similar thread maybe two weeks ago.  I was upgrading from
> 3.0 to 3.1.  It was never solved.  I am now running FBSD on that Box.
> I did however grab the packets from an attempted install. It's 500K plus
> though.
> I also never made it past the middle of the second set.
> 
> I never tried with a CD cause that box has no cdrom.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 11:05, dvv@internet-bg.net wrote:
> > Hail to all list members!
> > I am writing to you to get some help on 
> > upgrade problems.
> > I am trying to upgrade from 2.9 to 3.1 release/i386 port on a 
> > Compaq 2000 Deskpro box/P100/602MB HDD.
> > Booting from floppy went OK.
> > I hit Install instead of Upgrade to  resize 
> > the partitions.Selected use entire disk, 
> > resized.That was a piece of cake.
> > Hell started when fetching the disksets began:
> > the installer got half of /base and then froze.
> > I left if for 5 mins in this state, then restarted the box 
> > with the power button.Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't work out.
> > Finally, after several tries, ending the same way, 
> > I managed to fetch all sets. Just before the final mesg,  
> > the following messages appeared on my screen:
> > 
> > `Error execution in supervisory mode
> > trap:O(0):invoked opcode fault
> > cu_tab=0x4b04O
> > code dump [0x43de3]:
> > 8f840f 8f848f 8b000000 458b0000fc458b00 85fc485b cO85fc45
> > memory dump [0x1a000]
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > 00000000
> > ................`
> > 
> > Couldn't write down the remaining part - the machine rebooted itself.
> > Cleaned MBR with FDISK,reformatted, booted over and over - no result.
> > Tried putting a new BIOS - no effect.
> > Can you suggest a solution/hint? I would like to get some opinions before
> > proceding further.
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Dimitar
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