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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:23:00 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installation fails 
Message-ID:  <16557.837991380@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jul 1996 06:14:16 %2B0200." <9607200414.AA09748=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> 

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> I used novice install, got twice in an fdisk-like program -
> maybe once to cut a partition into slices and once to select
> mount points - I just took the defaults - got a menu to tell
> about IP-number and hostname, and maybe that was the last.
> [But don't trust my bad memory.]

I'll bet you left the nameserver field blank?  This appears to be
something of a fatal error now, which I'll look into, but if
you set it to something you won't run afoul of this one.

> In the meantime I tried a different approach and wrote
> 2.1.5-RELEASE to a SCSI tape and installed from there.
> The installation process was more or less successful;
> it complained `couldn't extract compat1x compat20 commerce xperimnt'
> even while this release did contain subdirectories

Hmmmm.  Are you sure?  Can you show me a directory listing of the tape
in question?

> local time the digit 7 did not work (but 6 and 8 did) - very strange.
> 
> But now I find that I have no means to boot this installed system!

You should have said "yes" to the boot manager question. :-)

					Jordan



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