Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:59:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.0-RC2 install story Message-ID: <20021224085817.C94893-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Hi all, I've just tested an install of 5.0-RC2 using the boot floppies FTP install method (from ftp3.uk.freebsd.org). The machine is a 1.8GHz P4 with an Intel 850MV2 motherboard. Overall the installation was successful, however: First time I booted the install disks, the machine hung on a sysinstall requester, "Loading module if_awi.ko failed. Baystack 660 and others". Not even caps lock or scroll lock worked. I rebooted, checked the bios was setup correctly, never changed anything, and tried again. it worked. The drive was originally formatted NTFS, i deleted the whole partition and created a freebsd partition on the first half of the drive. I used the Auto option for the slices, and then manually split /usr into /usr and /usr/home. I performed a custom install, installing everything except kerberos and pre-4 compat. The install went well, however at the end of the install, every option I selected on the menu gave "Couldn't stat dir /tmp. Bad file descriptor". Rebooted to find the same problem. I had to unmount it, newfs it, remount it and chmod it before it worked. I tried installing Gnome2, but the install couldn't find libgtkhtml-2.0.3 on the ftp mirror I was using. I grabbed it off the primary successfully. Similarly with the option to read online docs, lincs-0.98,1 could not be found on ftp3.uk.freebsd.org but was on ftp.freebsd.org. FreeBSD happily detected all my hardware, and seemed happy with everything. Xfree86 auto-config detected everything and worked fine. Worryingly, the game same-gnome died with a floating-point exception, which I haven't seen since all the FP problems last time. I won't be able to investigate this further until the new year. Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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