From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 13:39:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f148.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92D5A37BB7C for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:39:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 5201 invoked by uid 0); 16 Mar 2000 21:39:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20000316213940.5200.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:39:40 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0-RELEASE Install Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:39:40 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I installed 4.0-RELEASE on March 15th from ftp.freebsd.org and found these problems: 1. "Unable to extract local distribution" I had the same problem with 4.0-RC3. What is the local distribution? Is it important? Has this been fixed? Can I now get it using /stand/sysinstall? 2. "Package RSAREF was not found in the Index" Again, can I now get this using /stand/sysinstall? 3. After the system rebooted, I logged in a user account but I got the message "could not lookup internet address for ..." when I started x. (I hit a "continue" button or something and X did start - but Netscape did not connect to any web pages) Perhaps my NIC was not being made available as a device to the user account? I don't recall getting the message under root, but I haven't yet tested Netscape under root either. Is there some privilege that I have to set, or some group that a user must belong to that will allow access to the NIC? 4. I wasn't asked if I wanted to sync my clock with an outside source. Is this because I didn't activate named? How can I activeate named now? (stand/sysinstall?) 5. By CVSup-ing, I can keep my sources up-to-date, but how do I know thta is safe to make and install a new kernel? (I have been wondering this about those who track -CURRENT) I know that it is always a good idea to keep a previously workign kernel around, but how do you tell the system, on boot, to use the old one? John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message