From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 16:35:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11019 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10999 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01702; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joachim Wunder cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HELP: Mistakes in FreeBSD-2.1.6 Release In-Reply-To: <334a6991.17845170@mailhost.lrz-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please, one mail to questions@freebsd.org is all that is required. Thanks. On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Joachim Wunder wrote: > I couldn't believe my eyes as I installed the 2.1.6-Release on a new fresh > 3.2GB-Quantum EIDE disk: > > The installer complains about the following: > > * Unable to transfer the X32AGX distribution from wcd0c. > Do you want to try to retrieve it again? > > [A manual look on the CD showed me that the Package X32AGX under /XF8632 > is 0 bytes long, so no wonder...] I confirm on my 2.1.6 CD. Must have been a bug, sorry :( You can fetch the server from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86/3.2/binaries/FreeBSD-2.1.5/X32AGX.tgz > * Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were > not available on the installation media you've chosen: > commerce xperimnt > > [A manual look on the CD showed me that these directories are existing, so > something other might be wrong...] These are very large distributions, I don't recommend installing them unless you have the space (which you do, hm.). You can install the manually by running the 'install.sh' script from the CD in the commerce/ and xperimnt/ directories. WARNING: xperiment is *BIG* and probably unnecessary! > * [Not possible to start the X11 installation, the machine complains > about tons > of numerous missing files...] Will be fixed by getting the above file. > * [A LOT of errors in different packages while installing an almost full > feed of > packages after basic installation] That will do it -- sysinstall had a bug that would cause it to crash after a few packages. Use the pkg_add command after you finish up to install them. > Since I really need a working FreeBSD-Release for my diploma-thesis here > at the LRZ, could you please be so kind and send me a working copy of > FreeBSD please! Contact Walnut Creek directly -- they may sympathize and replace it. We handle tech support, not sales, thankfully :). Hope this helps. SOrry for the bad experience, but it looks like you hit all the bugs. I'll tell you that the OS itself isn't quite so bug-prone. We have a server that's been up 70 days. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major