From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 18:37:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA23863 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA23858 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:37:53 -0700 (PDT) From: un_x@anchorage.net Received: from ai-131.anchorage.net (ai-131 [207.14.72.131]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00489 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:34:32 -0800 Message-ID: <335DCA6E.9A4@anchorage.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:38:06 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: plethera Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i thought i'd try out 2.2.1R after enjoying 2.1.5 for a year ... 1. i find most of my manpages are corrupt (sh, csh, cd, ps, man, date, time, etc.) i get ".../cat1/*.1.gz not in gzip format" errors. 2. packages don't seems to install via /stand/sysinstall. i get packages/INDEX not found errors. it is in C:\freebsd\packages, and is not corrupt. i've downloaded it in binary mode multiple times, and have all my packages in packages/all. 3. this i haven't confirmed more than twice, but i get an error when sysinstall extracts X32f100.tgz (something to the effect that the archive ended before the end). when i try to add it again via sysinstall, i get some error, (can't remember what! media?) 4. a minor note, /etc doesn't extract with a "resolv.conf" file. 5. i got "info" pages after i installed, and tried to add them via sysinstall, but sysinstall says it can't find them. i have selected DOS media, and do have the complete info dir in c:\freebsd. can anyone help me out with some of this stuff?