Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:00:25 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel <trini0@optonline.net> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... Message-ID: <3B31EFE9.E4C79790@optonline.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106210821310.86886-100000@users.icubed.com>
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4.3 Stable, working like a champ here....
{gsam@hivemind}-{~} > uname
-a [21 Jun
8:58am]
FreeBSD hivemind.lan.trini 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Fri May 18
10:08:55 EDT 2001
root@hivemind.lan.trini:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HIVEMIND i386
{gsam@hivemind}-{~} >
uptime
[21 Jun 8:58am]
8:59AM up 16 days, 21:48, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 1.02, 1.00
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote:
> 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]=-
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