Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:09:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad CD ? Message-ID: <20000211130944.G76521@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <38A34F65.34853F9A@frustum.clara.co.uk> References: <38A34D56.7B4FD808@frustum.clara.co.uk> <38A34F65.34853F9A@frustum.clara.co.uk>
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On Thursday, 10 February 2000 at 23:53:09 +0000, Aleksandar Simic wrote:
> Aleksandar Simic wrote:
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> Did I just get a CD's from a badly burned batch or is this how release
>> 3.4 is supposed to be ?
No.
>> I received FreeBSD 3.4, two days ago. Upon trying to install it I have
>> found that it is not bootable.
What happened was that some mods were made to the bootstrap. They
worked fine on the hardware on which they were developed, but it seems
that some BIOSes expect additional dependencies which go beyond the
standard, and they don't recognize the bootstrap.
The following method should work:
1. Boot from the *second* CD-ROM.
2. When the kernel configuration screen is displayed, change to the
first CD-ROM.
3. Continue.
If anybody tries this, please let me know in private mail whether it
worked. It does for me, but in this case that's not enough :-)
>> Somehow I managed to get it installed, but so many things seem to be
>> acting strange.
>>
>> -XF86Setup, graphical X setup, just plain fails to start up.
What's the message?
>> -Fetchmailconf spews the following:
>>
>> inconsistent dedent
>> File "/usr/local/libexec/fetchmailconf.bin", line 1131
>> if string.find(greetline, "1.003") > 0 or string.find(greetline,
>> "1.004") > 0:
>> SyntaxError: invalid token
Was this an upgrade? That could have been part of the problem.
>> -fvwm2, sort of installs.
Good.
>> -Netscape (all 4.* FreeBSD versions) dump core without even starting
>> up.
Hmm. Not typical.
>> -Xemacs dumps core without even starting up, just like Netscape.
Are you sure your X installation is complete?
>> I have first purchased FreeBSD 2.8 with Greg Lahey's book, and have
> ^^^^
> I ment to say 2.2.8. :)
Maybe you meant to say "Greg Lehey", too :-)
Greg
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