From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 18 9: 2:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E382637B9B8 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 09:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA01672 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:02:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:02:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Comments on 4.0-RELEASE install glitches Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed 4.0 on a notebook yesterday, using the docking station. As previously described, I had hardware probing problems without using the ethernet card in the docking station. Well, sadly, X11 requires an extra option or two to work when with the docking station, but I figured that out and that works too. Here are some observations: 1) I isntalled from ftp.freebsd.org -- the RSAREF package install failed, breaking SSH and friends. 2) I chose the gnome/afterstep desktop combo--some of the afterstep icons were broken 3) I switched to the gnome/enlightenment combo--the file manager never turned up, and the console spewed warnings from Perl about locale settings I realize that these are all ports-related problems, but they're very visible points of failure, that would turn up early in any review in a magazine or the like :-). Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message