Re: has anyone installed 5.1 from a SCSI CD?

2003-09-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: BTW, I have another related issue too: since at least 4.7 all the disk device nodes have charcater device entries in /dev. 'block' vs 'character' has nothing to do with random or sequential access and any

Re: has anyone installed 5.1 from a SCSI CD?

2003-09-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: BTW, I have another related issue too: since at least 4.7 all the disk device nodes have charcater device entries in /dev. As of December 1999 - which is before 4.0-RELEASE. This was well advertised and discussed at the time. Your

Re: has anyone installed 5.1 from a SCSI CD?

2003-09-29 Thread Sergey Babkin
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: BTW, I have another related issue too: since at least 4.7 all the disk device nodes have charcater device entries in /dev. As of December 1999 - which is before 4.0-RELEASE. This was well advertised and

has anyone installed 5.1 from a SCSI CD?

2003-09-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi all, I've got the compiler on my -current partition hosed (I did a make install at a time when it was unstable, and now it dies when recompiling -current), so I decided to re-base it with 5.1. That's when I discovered an unpleasent issue: it could not mount SCSI CD-ROM! The devices (I have two