Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:16:36 +1100 From: techtrak@midcoast.com.au (Luis M. Huesch) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: help Message-ID: <199602070216.NAA15293@portmac.midcoast.com.au>
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Hi, have installed 2.1 from DOS partition (XCOPYd relevant stuff there across my network) but some glitches remain, specifically these: 1.) I can't seem to get rid of earlier configuration stuff written to disk during initial install when I opted for network config but just hit RET at the various fields (intending to fill them in later). As a result, during boot I'm told 'myname.mydomain' etc are "Bad fields" or something of this sort. I reinstalled several times but the install will NOT erase the initial files even though newfs is set to yes. In sheer frustration, I deleted the 2.1 partition from DOS FDISK, set up an extended DOS partition, formatted it (hoping to erase all traces of earlier 2.1 install) but debug still tells me all the relevant slices are not being created because 'newer or same age version exists'... After the latest round of this exercise (having done a badblock scan for good measure) the system hangs at the /mnt/dev/rwd0s2e stage after starting a line saying 'super-block backups for fsck -b # at: 32,' 2.) During a previous stage when I attempted to add packages via the /stand/sysinstall mechanism, the system let me pick editors etc to my heart's delight, but then claimed it could'nt fetch any of my selections from the selected media (yes, I had specified DOS partition as the installation media, sometimes even in the options screen as well!). Since this affected my ability to peruse the Handbook, too (the needed package was not found/loaded), perhaps it would be a good idea to include that part somewhere else in the installation so that it gets loaded with all the other essential stuff? (There was another item in this same category, but I can't remember offhand what that was.) I would greatly appreciate some suggestions on how best to proceed from here... (I am loath to buy a second CD drive -- for the machine in question -- but perhaps that is the best way out of the impasse?) Many thanks and best regards, Luis === Der Cyberlehrling - Australia's original comms groupie... === --> http://www.midcoast.com.au/users/techtrak/techtrak.html <--
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