From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:53:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2328114DC3 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15634; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:53:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:53:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible bug in 3.1 STABLE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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