Date: 26 Jul 1998 12:00:14 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: wayne@msen.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems with FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <xzp4sw5ylsh.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: wayne@msen.com's message of "Sat, 25 Jul 98 05:18:40 -0400" References: <m0z00TR-0003cUC@ilium.troy.msen.com>
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wayne@msen.com writes: > Trying to from-scratch via-ftp install 2.2.7 and seeing an odd > problem. Most of the way through the process an error occurs. The > screen says something like "if this is repeatable send mail". While > it's repeatable (takes about 40 minutes to get there so we only did it > 3 times), instead of pausing at this point, the machine reboots so fast > after printing this that the message is not easily read. You could try to use a serial console, or connect the failing box to another computer using a null-modem cable and use tip(1) as console. BTW, I can't find any code in sysinstall(8) or any of its friends that actually recommends sending mail about a bug (except for relnotes.hlp) > Since it is fairly late in the installation process, enough has been > installed to bring the machine up but SOMEthing is not right here. Bringing the machine up the rest of the way manually should be fairly simple if you are relatively experienced with Unix. The only gotcha once you've installed whatever distributions you want is copying the right timezone file to /etc/localtime (this should be documented somewhere...) Just locate the correct file in /usr/share/zoneinfo (probably /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Detroit if 'whois msen.com'is to be trusted). If you forget to do this, the kernel (and everything started before you get a chance to set the TZ environment variable, such as, most annoyingly, cron) will run GMT. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message
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