Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:31:04 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: 3.0-970124-SNAP Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970126213102.00beb100@dimaga.com>
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At 03:55 PM 1/25/97 -0800, you wrote: >You all know the drill by now, I'm sure. > >This SNAP fixes the broken NFS, tape and floppy installation methods >(don't ask) of the previous SNAPshot as well as Justin's latest SCSI >changes. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-970124-SNAP is the >full URL for those reading this in an HTML capable mailer reader. :) > >As always (with SNAPs, anyway) feedback to current@freebsd.org please. I had a couple of problems with this SNAP (but it worked better than both 2.1.6 and 2.2-BETA :) All of this happened on a clean install (a machine with only Linux and Windows on it) (1) sysinstall locked up on attempting to install packages on initial install. It downloaded the index, I got to select what packages I wanted, and on committing the changes I just got a dialog box with "fetching index", and the debug screen printed out the names of all packes as "failed", and a message about closing the FTP connection. No way to get further. (2) There was a refresh-problem the first time I got to the list of packages selected for install; the list seemed to be one line offset from it's correct position in some way (partial overwrites), and the first character was of each name was screwed up. The problem went away after going back to the package selection menu and adding some packages (I'd forgotten some). I was unable to reproduce this problem running sysinstall from the command line after the box was up. (3) When running /stand/sysinstall from the command line I got a dialog-box saying "error mounting /dev/wcd0c on /dist" - right after startup. Everything worked after cancelling the dialog, though. (4) Setting character set/console font from the "Post install configuration" menu did not change /etc/sysconfig (5) The XFree package was not available. Good point: The same box had had problems with "too large partition" when having more than one slice earlier (2.1.6); this worked fine now. (And the box came up fine with just a tiny amount of extra effort) Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
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