From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 19 21:39:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA16450 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:39:12 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA16429 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:39:08 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA01108; Wed, 19 Jul 95 22:32:05 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507200432.AA01108@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Install To: mileena@amanda.dorsai.org (Mileena) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 22:32:04 MDT Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507200153.AA07424@dorsai.dorsai.org> from "Mileena" at Jul 19, 95 09:53:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, I just purchased the FreeBSD disk from Walnut Creek, and I must say > it's a very good operating system. I had encountered 2 problems though. > The first was on an EISA System (HP Vectra) with 52 MB of Ram... the > software only recognized the first 16. # cd /sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC GENERIC.ORG # cat >> GENERIC The other problem (which occurred > on several machines) was when I tried to install the X-Windows portion of > the software. It would go through the checksum test, and then just hang, > forcing me to reboot or reinstall everything. Install the X seperately. At least you won't have to reinstall everything that way. We can then pick up from there (probably someone else will be answering that one). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.