Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:15:10 -0700 From: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems upgrading to 4.1-RC2 Message-ID: <12038.964214110@cloud.rain.com> References: <4450.964211629@localhost>
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Thanks to both you and John Baldwin for the quick replies!
"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
I don't think proxies work for HTTP installs right now.
Oh yes they do! I upgraded two machines that way today.
> 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?"
Yes, sorry. Alas, I have forgotten the details.
On the other hand! Doing nothing unusual on my laptop (a Fujitsu
Lifebook 635Tx with a Linksys PCMCIA card using the ed0 driver), I kept
having a sysinstall panic on something like "set_variable2." I would
select what to install and the disks as usual, then select an HTTP
proxy install. I might use DHCP, or might go manually, but either way,
immediately after the screen to configure the interface, I would get a
dialog saying "trying to contact ftp.freebsd.org" and the panic message
at the bottom of the window. I finally managed to permute the problem
away by *either* not going directly for "custom" in the what-to-install
screen, or by not specifying a name server (I was never specifying a
default route, 'cause there ain't one).
This one was a killer -- I was beginning to suspect that upgrading
wasn't going to be possible.
> 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.
Perhaps, but John was talking about spiffy new binaries in his
announcement.
In a completely different vein -- I sendpr'd a bug for the 4.0
prerelease that *still* hasn't been fixed: i386/16770, "cc -aout foo.c"
doesn't work. I haven't heard back on i386/16722, either, which I
reported at roughly the same time.
By the by, how widely are the release candidates going to be mirrored?
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