From owner-freebsd-install Sun Jul 26 03:00:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02309 for freebsd-install-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 03:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02301; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 03:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA18208; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:00:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:00:15 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: wayne@msen.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems with FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 26 Jul 1998 12:00:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: wayne@msen.com's message of "Sat, 25 Jul 98 05:18:40 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA02303 Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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