From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 11:56:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03032 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03024 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA07419; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Doug White cc: William Wong , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall buggy? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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