From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 11 20:24:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA21440 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:24:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21412; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:24:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA04155 ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:39:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA11906; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:39:00 -0800 (PST) To: Luigi Rizzo cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-GAMMA install comments In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Feb 1997 23:21:33 +0100." <199702112221.XAA17592@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:39:00 -0800 Message-ID: <11902.855718740@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) if some distribution is selected but missing (e.g. I chose > "X-developer" but did not have "proflibs" and "info" on my disk), > then X is not installed. The install program correctly informs me Hmmm. Are you really sure that's the cause, or was X *also* just not installed? The failure to load one distribution shouldn't stop processing of other distributions unless a genuine hard error was detected on the media, in which case the whole show stops since there's no point in going on. > 2) in the "Adduser" form, the "Login Id" entry is a bit too small > (5-6 chars instead of 8 ?) -- Also, if the adduser fails because of > some problem (e.g. a non-existing group), the content of the form > is not preserved and one has to reenter everything from scratch. I'll look into these if Joerg doesn't beat me to it - thanks! Jordan