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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: misc/2451: 2.1.6 NFS install fails
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The following reply was made to PR misc/2451; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/2451: 2.1.6 NFS install fails
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:23:34 +0100

 As gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk wrote:
 
 > Trying to install 2.1.6 via NFS, the mount failed the first time.
 > If you go back to the menu and go through the novice install again
 > it works fine.
 
 I think this was a known problem, and his been fixed since -- but that
 was already too late for 2.1.6. :(
 
 IIRC, sysinstall wrote the resolv.conf into the true root /etc at the
 first time, as opposed to the chroot'ed /etc.  Hence, if you specify
 an FQDN, it will work, too.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)