Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:41:21 -0400 (EDT) From: sjr@home.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/13508: Wrong fixit CDROM in sysinstall Message-ID: <199909010241.WAA09272@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>
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>Number: 13508
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Wrong fixit CDROM in sysinstall
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 31 19:50:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
Installing from the 3.2 CDROMs.
>Description:
After choosing the fixit option, you are prompted to install
the 2nd CDROM for the fixit filesystem. If you do, you get an
error that it is for the Alpha.
>How-To-Repeat:
Select the CDROM fixit option after booting from a CDROM
and install the 2nd CDROM as prompted.
>Fix:
--- release/sysinstall/menus.c.orig Tue Aug 31 22:28:24 1999
+++ release/sysinstall/menus.c Tue Aug 31 22:34:38 1999
@@ -1576,8 +1576,9 @@
DMENU_NORMAL_TYPE,
"Please choose a fixit option",
"There are three ways of going into \"fixit\" mode:\n"
- "- you can use the 2nd FreeBSD CDROM, in which case there will be\n"
- " full access to the complete set of FreeBSD commands and utilities,\n"
+ "- you can use the 1st FreeBSD CDROM (x86) or 2nd FreeBSD CDROM (alpha)\n"
+ " in which case there will be full access to the complete set of\n"
+ " FreeBSD commands and utilities,\n"
"- you can use the more limited (but perhaps customized) fixit floppy,\n"
"- or you can start an Emergency Holographic Shell now, which is\n"
" limited to the subset of commands that is already available right now.",
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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