From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 5:38:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BBC37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 05:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from mcfly ([139.140.133.82]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GFA5RS00.8XH; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:38:16 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" To: "Christopher W. Aiken" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:38:16 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Perhaps you have a bad CD, as most of us have had no problems with it. I for one, can run top just fine, and pkd_add windowmaker jst took 4 minutes. I'm betting your instaqll media is bad and that is causing something, or perhas your hardware finally bit the dust? .matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher W. Aiken Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:36 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... I just got my 4.3CD's in the mail. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a newbee nor am I an expert, but 4.3 is the pits compared to previous versions. I have had the same computer/hardware for three years. I have installed various flavors of Linux on my system w/o any problems. I have installed FBSD 3.5/4.0/4.1/4.2 w/o any problems. Now 4.3 is creating tons of problems. The biggest is constant system freezes during the install. All total it took me over 8 hours to get 4.3 installed over a period of 2 days !! A lot of my hardware was not and is not recognized ( mouse, sound, etc. ). I never ever had any problems like this with versions 3.5 thru 4.2. I don't know what is going on but in my opinion 4.3 just went down hill. Certain commands don't work either. "top" produces a "no table found" error. "pkg_add" for windowmaker took 25 minutes!! What a dog. "pkg_add" for the XFree86 4.0... server actual freezes my system to the point that nothing short of a "hard reboot" works. Tonight I'm going to wipe 4.3 and re-install 4.2. The 4.2 install should take under 30 minutes, at least that's what it took the last time. At least I'll have a working system. Maybe my dogs would like to have my 4.3 "frizbees". -- -=[cwa]=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message