Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall buggy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721115131.7401A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721101607.1259I-100000@localhost>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, William Wong wrote:
>
> > I just got a hold of the 2.2.2-RELEASE CD and went for an install on one of my
> > disks. I noticed that on some of the screens, more than one of the options
> > were checked. I don't remember this happening before (pre 2.2.x). It a makes
> > it a little confusing as to just what options I did choose. Also, my rc.conf
> > gets corrupted with repeated lines. Furthermore, choosing the networking
> > option (ppp) and then filling in some of the fields such as the hostname of my
> > computer, etc. was fine. But going back to it using sysinstall, the
> > screen has a "Set this!" or something like it written all over the screen.
> > The words were written all over the graphics area and not confined to just
> > within the fields areas. There might be other anonmalies...
> >
> > So, was this only me or is there really something going on with sysinstall?
> > Or is it something other than sysinstall?
>
> It's probably sysinstall. I've noticed problems with rc.conf generation
> as well, and you're the second one today to mention repeating lines.
>
> In the meantime, if you get sidetracked you might try rebooting and
> starting over to clear up sysinstall's state if it gets turned around.
>
> Oh, Jordan...
Here's the text of the message ERRATA.TXT from ftp.cdrom.com,
FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT:
jkh@time-> more ERRATA.TXT
Last minute errata:
-------------------
o login as root produces "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" on system
console.
Fix: If you have the source distribution installed, simply
cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc
otherwise, get it from the FreeBSD FTP site using this URL:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf
instead. Simply cd to /etc and then run fetch(1) with the provided URL.
o sysconfig scrambles rc.conf if run again.
Fix: Get updated /usr/src from RELENG_2_2 branch and build
/usr/src/release/sysinstall, copying the new binary to /stand.
If you do not have enough space for src then you could also
use the boot/fixit floppy combo from a later 2.2-YYMMDD-RELENG
release to simply mount your root partition (using the Fixit
option) and copy /stand/sysinstall from the floppy to /stand on
your root fs.
--------------------end of text of ERRATA.TXT------------------
Note in above (errata in ERRATA) "sysconfig" should by "sysinstall"
Annelise
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