From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 13:32:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D9E37BED0 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04453; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Bill Trost Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems upgrading to 4.1-RC2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:02:09 PDT." <806.964209729@cloud.rain.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:33:49 -0700 Message-ID: <4450.964211629@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1. I tried to use "blah.blah.blah:8080" as my HTTP proxy, and it didn't I don't think proxies work for HTTP installs right now. It should still work for FTP, however, as the dialog says. > 2. The built-in URL's are all wrong -- they try to look in > /pub/FreeBSD/releases/, not the /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ where the > release candidate actually lives. Actually, the built-in URLs are fine given the way sysinstall works right now (and has always worked), it's just that the deputy release engineers forgot to create the appropriate symlinks to the snapshots. :) > 3. Go to the "options" menu from the root menu, try to set the "media > type", and sysinstall will ultimately panic. Might just remove the > option to set media type from the options menu. I need more details. Set the media type to what? Exactly where does it "ultimately panic?" > > 4. Going through the normal upgrade path, if you select option 9 > ("Options") on the media select menu, you get the standard option menu. > "Q"uitting the option menu takes you back to the root menu! From there, The options screen is a botch, has always been a botch, and needs to be thought out better or at least removed from a number of the places where it's referenced. > 5. No XFree86. I've already mentioned this to John Baldwin. Normal for early snapshot releases; packages and XFree86 don't always show up until later in the process. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message