Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:10:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. Message-ID: <199606200510.XAA19984@hemi.com>
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Hello, I installed 2.2-960612-SNAP the other day... but the procedure would hang during bin extraction if I tried to install via NFS. It gets stuck at the same file (alt-f2 shows /bin/mkdir as the last file.) I tried a few times and it gets stuck at the same place. Some details... the NFS server is a 2.1-RELEASE system, with a DEC Lance controller. The 2.2 machine runs a 3com 509-combo. When it hangs, I can still ping the 2.2 machine from the NFS server. I had suspected a problem with the ethernet card, but when I selected installation over FTP (to ftp.cdrom.com), everything worked flawlessly. Also, I can install 2.1-R via NFS to the same machine without problems. Oh, another thing... as always since long ago, the initial rc.local has the following code in it: | T=/tmp/_motd ... | uname -v | sed ... > $T | ... | cp $T /etc/motd The above is extremely annoying. =-) Is there a good reason to keep such code in rc.local ? Can we get rid of it ? Please ? =-) I can just think of all the poor FreeBSD newcomers who can't for the life of them figure out why their /etc/motd keeps on dissappearing. Over- writing user files is morally bad, anyways. Thanks for all the help. I'll remind myself to send in a donation check to FreeBSD tonight... =-) My company couldn't exist without FreeBSD; I'll make sure we'll contribute more (unfortunately we can't contribute much right now.) Regards, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - <http://www.hemi.com/>; -------------------------------------------------------------------
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