From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 13:14:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.javanet.com (mail1.javanet.com [205.219.162.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890FB14D28 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from media@mail1.nai.net) Received: from [209.150.36.128] (ct-hartford-us1327.javanet.com [209.150.36.128]) by mail1.javanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA25798; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, From: media@mail1.nai.net Subject: Re: possible bug in 3.1 STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:42 AM -0700 5/17/99, Doug White wrote: > >> >Hm... Did you try the fix from the 3.1 ERRATA? >> >> Which fix?? I've read the Errata -- it didn't make any mention of this, or >> a broken pipe error. I am re-running /stand/install after rebooting >> several times. Perhaps I've read the wrong documents, where can I find the >> specific Errata in question?? > >What problem? You chopped it off and I forgot. Start over! Not to sound unapreciative, but shouldn't you read a question before saying it's already answered in the Errata?? >> I'm referring to the Errata at www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html > >This one. OK : ) I've read that one. It doesn't seem to apply. Following the advice of the this list, I installed 3.1-STABLE-1990503 in place of 3.1-RELEASE. I downloaded all new files from releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/spapshots/i386 and made new floppies. I am using a 133 Pentium w/64M RAM with no cd. I then booted from the floppies and went to install from my primary DOS partition. It refused to install the src and XFree86 files. I checked the list of distribution files it couldn't transfer or extract against the contents of C:\FREEBSD\xf86333 and C:\FREEBSD\src and they are all there. When I try to install these files after rebooting the installer crashes. I enter stand/install from root and go to load them I get: "Unable to transfer the scontrib distribution from wd0s1" I try again. It fails again. I choose "no" to not try again, it moves on to the next src file, tries, fails, I select "no" again, and boom: "B roken Pipe" I get a root prompt that's blind (I can't see what I'm typing). I type "shutdown -h now" and it shuts down. I reboot it and it seems the same. I've repeated this several times. Every time the same thing happens. I have not attempted to modify the OS in any way, or have installed any ports or packages. So, I'm thinking this is a bug. THANX!! PEACE OUT :) MARK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message