From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 22:10:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA17777 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA17772 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA19984 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:10:16 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199606200510.XAA19984@hemi.com> Subject: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:10:15 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------