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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall lockup
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On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:

> 
> After installing FBSD 2.1.5 I went to choose some packages.  It froze on
> me.  I could do nothing in sysinstall, but I could switch screens and
> the root window worked.  I then sync-sync-rebooted.
> Was there anything else that sysinstall needed to do?
> (beside root needs password and packages needed.....)

Known bug.  Don't use sysinstall to add packages; use the 'pkg_add
package.tgz' command instead.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major