From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 10 19:46:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA16109 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:46:53 -0800 Received: from hermes.cybernetics.net (hermes.cybernetics.net [198.80.51.103]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA16100 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:46:50 -0800 Received: (from james@localhost) by hermes.cybernetics.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA20086 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:56:55 -0500 From: James Robinson Message-Id: <199501110356.WAA20086@hermes.cybernetics.net> Subject: 2.0 Install comments To: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:56:55 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1428 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've just installed 2.0R onto two machines using whatever floppies the sym links point to these days. I was amazed -- I couldn't believe the improvement in interface that has happened. This is really a great leap forward! (I didn't know we had a Turbo Pascal compiler :-) Now, I think I hit some spots of code that wasn't exercised properly (not a big deal, but certainly made the install stumble, and would have seriously discouraged a novice sys sdmin). I was installing across the local network, but WITHOUT DNS / nameserver. Nowhere did it ask for the IP address of the host machine (i.e. the one with the distribution on it). I could escape into the subshell and cat it into /etc/hosts, which worked for a while. After it exploded one of the distributions (bindist mabye? Whichever one has the new /etc/hosts in it), the hacked /etc/hosts became overwritten, causing the next dist fetch attempt to fail. No biggie -- got past it fine. There were a couple of other things, of which I have written down at work. More tommorow! Really really slick and relatively painless. Wonderful work (Poul?) ! James : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!