From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 04:27:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA03129 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hera.cwi.nl (hera.cwi.nl [192.16.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03103; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.cwi.nl by hera.cwi.nl with SMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:27:05 +0200 Received: by zeus-184.cwi.nl id ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:27:18 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:27:18 +0200 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: <9607221127.AA24043=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: installation fails Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I used novice install, got twice in an fdisk-like program - > maybe once to cut a partition into slices and once to select > mount points - I just took the defaults - got a menu to tell > about IP-number and hostname, and maybe that was the last. > [But don't trust my bad memory.] I'll bet you left the nameserver field blank? This appears to be something of a fatal error now, which I'll look into, but if you set it to something you won't run afoul of this one. Yes, in fact I did leave the name server field blank. [I have a local installation, using ethernet, and am connected to the outside world using a CSLIP connection. This means that there are two IP numbers - one for the local ethernet interface, and one for the SLIP interface. All the local numbers are known explicitly, and listed in /etc/hosts. My name server lives on the other side of the SLIP link. As I understand, FreeBSD does not yet support installing over a SLIP link (and moreover, it would be too slow). Moreover, the installation procedure does not have the option of listing more than one IP number (and more than one hostname) for the machine.] > In the meantime I tried a different approach and wrote > 2.1.5-RELEASE to a SCSI tape and installed from there. > The installation process was more or less successful; > it complained `couldn't extract compat1x compat20 commerce xperimnt' > even while this release did contain subdirectories Hmmmm. Are you sure? Can you show me a directory listing of the tape in question? I made it by tarring a directory with contents HARDWARE.TXT RELNOTES.TXT dict/ info/ src/ INSTALL.TXT bin/ doc/ manpages/ xperimnt/ KNOWNBUG.TXT commerce/ floppies/ ports/ README.TXT compat21/ games/ proflibs/ gotten from a 2.1.5-RELEASE distribution. The tape does not exist anymore. > local time the digit 7 did not work (but 6 and 8 did) - very strange. > > But now I find that I have no means to boot this installed system! You should have said "yes" to the boot manager question. :-) Well, maybe. Would the FreeBSD boot manager have been able to boot FreeBSD from the fifth disk (sd1) even when BIOS only knows about disk 0 and 1? Andries