From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 01:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 01:25:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.153.190.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08295 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA10475; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:45:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:45:50 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysintall keeps dumping core :( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Doug, Thanks very much for the offer, but the sysinstall problem was traced to a faulty hardisk - all appears to working now. Thanks, Quintin. On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Doug White wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Quintin Oliver wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Well, my first FreeBSD problem, I installed FreeBSD Release 2.2.7 on my > > machine at home, it's a Cyrix 486/dx2 66 (16 meg of ram) and alls ok. > > > > Then, I thought - I like the BSD product, I'll install it on the server at > > work, install was ok. > > > > Without touching the machine, I tried to run /stand/sysinstall, it runs, > > then crashes when I select 'Post-Install'-'Packages' as soon as it gets > > the INDEX from ftp.freebsd.org, it crashes out: sysintall: exited in > > signal 10 dumped core (bus error). > > Please zip up one of your core files and put it somewheere I can get to > it... I have a debug'd sysinstall I can use to figure out why you're > getting core dumps. Do NOT send by email. > > Thanks! > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message