Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:53:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible bug in 3.1 STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171449550.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v03130304b365e5fcdf86@[209.150.35.82]>
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On Mon, 17 May 1999 media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > 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?? Well, I read the original question, gave the original answer, and now you're asking me about the original question and didn't bother to include it. I answered that, oh, last Thursday? I don't track individual threads; I'd need a few gigabytes of brain and a 1024-processor array to do that. > 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. Ah, this is what I ran into. The ERRATA says you must place the files in a RELEASES\ directory for DOS installs to work properly. From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html: o DOS installation fails when you actually follow the instructions to install stuff under C:\FREEBSD\BIN\... and so on. Fix: The instructions are correct but the code was wrong in 3.1-RELEASE, sysinstall looking instead directly under C:\ (e.g. C:\BIN\...) or under C:\RELEASES\ (C:\RELEASES\BIN\... and so on). Fixed in 3.1-STABLE. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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