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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade buggy sysinstall?
In-Reply-To: <33EE038D.62C08A84@javanet.com> from John Szumowski at "Aug 10, 97 02:08:13 pm"
To: harpo@javanet.com (John Szumowski)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:27:26 +0200 (MET DST)
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> I'm running FBSD 2.2.2 and would like to find the newer (non-buggy)
> sysinstall source. Instead of doing a a complete source upgrade and make
> world ( i have a rather slow modem link...w/ a 486), where can i get the
> newer source for just this one program?

The ERRATA.TXT in the 2.2.2-RELEASE directory on the FreeBSD
mirrors says it all:

jkh@time-> more ERRATA.TXT 
Last minute errata:
-------------------

o login as root produces "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" on system
  console.

Fix:  If you have the source distribution installed, simply
      cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc
      otherwise, get it from the FreeBSD FTP site using this URL:
      ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf
      instead.  Simply cd to /etc and then run fetch(1) with the provided URL.

o sysconfig scrambles rc.conf if run again.

Fix:  Get updated /usr/src from RELENG_2_2 branch and build
      /usr/src/release/sysinstall, copying the new binary to /stand.

      If you do not have enough space for src then you could also
      use the boot/fixit floppy combo from a later 2.2-YYMMDD-RELENG
      release to simply mount your root partition (using the Fixit
      option) and copy /stand/sysinstall from the floppy to /stand on
      your root fs.
> 
> TIA,
> John Szumowski
> harpo at javanet dot com
> http://www.javanet.com/~harpo
> 

Wolfgang