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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:05:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Peter Schmidt <peter@SchmidtP.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903181256360.54355-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990318104620.456A-100000@SchmidtP.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk>

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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Peter Schmidt wrote:

> I just upgraded my machine from FreeBSD 2.2.7 to FreeBSD 3.1 (stable=20
> release) and encountered a few problems:
>=20
> =091.) I have Windows NT Server installed as well. So when booting up
> =09the boot manager prints something like
> =09F1 NTFS (or the like)
> =09F2 FreeBSD
>=20
> =09Now after installing I get
> =09F1 ??
> =09F2 FreeBSD
> =09However I can still boot into NT.
> =09Is there any way to change this and configure the printout
> =09to something other than "??" ?

Try osbs153.exe (DOS program - do you still have an old DOS boot floppy?)
from the tools subdirectory to install an alternate boot manager which can
be configured.

> =092.) When I use telnet I get a message
> =09tcp/telnet: unkown service
> =09However, all the other network services work fine (ftp, http)

Maybe your /etc/services file is damaged (hard to believe). There should
be two lines like

telnet=09=0923/tcp
telnet=09=0923/udp

> =093.) When trying to install the XF86 3.3.3.1 version with
> =09/stand/sysinstall nothing happens. At first sysinstall installs
> =09the compat22 package, but then it immediately moves on to
> =09fixing permissions in the XFree86 tree without having installed
> =09a single bit. =09

Read error while reading from CDROM? Try to install the packages manually:

mkdir -p /usr/X11R6
cd /usr/X11R6
tar xvzf /cdrom/XF86333/Xbin.tgz
=2E..

Regards

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