From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 18:42:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0C345C5 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA77303; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:09:44 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:09:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Aleksandar Simic Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad CD ? Message-ID: <20000211130944.G76521@freebie.lemis.com> References: <38A34D56.7B4FD808@frustum.clara.co.uk> <38A34F65.34853F9A@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <38A34F65.34853F9A@frustum.clara.co.uk> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message