Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:35 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings... Message-ID: <47284AFF.3090000@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> References: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Just wanted to report some of my results with installing > the BETA1.5 CDs.... with a CD-ONLY install. > > This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, and 300G SATA > drive and older ATAPI DVD drive (Intel DG33BU motherboard.) > > First; after you partition & label and choose your distributions; > it's time to remove the "BOOTONLY" CD and place DISC1 in the > drive. There's nothing that tells you this.. if you don't > do this, then the process merrily fails at trying to install > everything.. twice over. After that, you have an opportunity > to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive. I'd > suggest a little box saying "remove the BOOTONLY CD, insert DISC1 > and press OK" when it's time to start installing the distributions. > Umm bootonly, exactly what it says. Read section 2.13.1 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html for an explanation of what each disk contain/can be used for. If you want to install from CD just use the install disks not the bootonly. > Second - if you choose the X11 packages in the distributions; > they don't work. The install process complains that it > can't find packages/INDEX on either DISC1 or DISK2. I'm not > sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install. Sorry not sure. I tend to install any packages from ftp or just compile from ports. Vince > > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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