Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 21:32:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP now available for testing Message-ID: <25235.812608320@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 14:21:56 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951001141650.216A-100000@localhost>
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> 1) It's nice that you've included the floppy tape filter 'ft' on the > fixit. It would be even nicer if you included the /dev/rft0 device node > so we could actually use it! :-) What's wrong with the ft0 device already on the boot floppy's /dev? The fixit fd's dev directory should actually be _pared down_ a fair bit to reduce the redundant device entries which were left behind when it switched roles. Perhaps I'm simply misunderstanding something. > 2) vi won't run unless it has a /tmp directory it can write to, and it > complains if it doesn't have /var/tmp for it's vi.recover file. Simply > 'mkdir /tmp /var/tmp' will fix this. I suppose I could create these if they don't already exist.. Or I could make them part of the MFS. > 3) When I typed 'pwd' from the fixit shell, it complained 'can't find > /stand/pwd' and went into some kind of weird subshell. Any further > commands were just ignored, but exiting got me back to the previous > shell. That's weird. :-) > Finally, now that ftp.cdrom.com has mirrored the XFree86 3.1.2 binaries, > why aren't those the default for installing FreeBSD 2.1.0? XFree86 3.1.2 > has some significant improvements including using libgnumalloc and much > better support for S3-based SVGA cards... They are now. Jordan
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