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Subject: ports/4745: installing new ports using /stand/sysinstall
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>Number:         4745
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       installing new ports using /stand/sysinstall
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 12 07:50:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     thomas osterried
>Organization:
not organized :-)
>Release:        2.2.2-RELEASE
>Environment:
>Description:
after installing freebsd from ftp6.de.freebsd.org (minimal installation),
i chose to install a few ports packages. that worked fine.
the system was able to (re)boot from harddisk, too.
then, i wanted to install further things, like irc and lynx using
/stand/sysinstall. but after the connection has been established, sysinstall
terminated with a core dump :-( this problem was repeatable.
then, i decided to make an ´update´ of my system. but that would take hours,
and I interrupted the ftp. after confirming the interrupt with ok, sysinstall
began checking the system but crashed with ´no swapspace left´ (I hat 25MB
swap, 8MB ram and only a few processes running - a memory allocation failure?).

i decided to reboot. but there was no kernel (!) left.
on the installation boot I´ve not found any help for re-installing the
kernel.

now, I´m at re-installing the complete system :-(((

btw: being familiar with linux, I noticed a different directory structure
(/stand, /usr/lkm, /usr/share, ..). since there´s no man for ´hier´ (
directory hierarchy), I want to know the sense / explanation for those directories.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: