Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:53:57 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Numerous minor with 2.1.6 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970112155356.009c1100@dimaga.com>
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I did an install of FreeBSD 2.1.6 about 2 weeks ago, and encountered quite a few problems. (Some of them have been reported to the "right person" already, but I'll just repeat problems with solutions here for hackers benefit) Cronologically: 1) After having loaded the kernel, just after starting "init" (sysinstall), the system froze, but the VTYs worked. (Seems to have been an IO-area conflict; it went away when I twiddled jumpers). Could be auto-detectable? 2) The description of proxy-FTP in the handbook leaves much to be desired; I had a lot of work finding how to do it. (Suggestion for revised handbook-entry sent to doc-mailing-list) - shorty: use options to set ftp@ftp.freebsd.org as your FTP username, your@email.address as password, and use ftp://your.proxy.server:[port]/pub/FreeBSD as install URL. (Replace [port] with appropriate port number) 3) Many packages missed (I don't know exactly which, due to having set 'yes to all non-critical questions') - no solution. (Except using ports to install them afterwards) 4) FreeBSD happily wrote a non-functioning boot-manager on my dangerously dedicated disk. Solution: Don't do that. (I ended up bringing the box to another location which already had a FreeBSD-machine, 5) The emacs package didn't work - it needed compat_20, which wasn't a dependency. Solution: Problem should be gone - thanks to Asami and Jordan. (I did my own version of compat_20 - copying the required libraries from another box I had) 6) The emacs port wouldn't compile - it just looped, configuring. Solution: Should be fixed now - I ended up replacing the libraries, as per above. (I could also have configured emacs by hand) 7) The lynx port was 2.5FM - which no longer exist on the FTP sites mentioned. Solution: I grabbed the -current ports collection, and installed 2.6FM from it. Not free of problems - the MD5 checksum was wrong (but the program worked when I disabled MD5). 8) The version of X downloaded is for 2.2 - it requires libc.so.3.0 I've reported this to jmz@freebsd.org (maintainer for the port), but don't know if it has been fixed (no reply yet). Solution for me: download the 2.1.5 archives from xfree86.cdrom.com, and replace the distribution. 9) SERIOUS: XFree86 _rebooted_ the box when /dev/mouse was linked to /dev/mse0 and I ran a config with "Microsoft" as mouse protocol. /dev/mse0 was NOT configured by the kernel (but should have been). Solution for me: Use a serial mouse instead of a BusMouse - but not a good solution. 10) XFree86 3.2 would detect my Matrox Millenium 2064W, and all documentation claim that the SVGA server support it - but it didn't work. Would work using the XF86_VGA16 server, though. Solution for me: I'll switch to AccelleratedX, which worked fine (the demo at least). The two latter problems occured on a PPro (Asus Motherboard) with 64 MB RAM, a 1542CF ISA controller with a 1.7GB Micropolis, no floppy, no IDE drives, no CD-ROM, a Matrox Millenium 2064W with 8MB RAM (american version), and no other cards. This is more distribution-problems than I like. FreeBSD runs very nicely once it is up, but I must admit to having had my share of problems getting it up and running, which is unfortunate, as I would have liked to be able to say it is easier than installing Linux :( Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
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