From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 19:10: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.javanet.com (mail1.javanet.com [205.219.162.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79AB15126 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 19:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from media@mail1.nai.net) Received: from [209.150.35.170] (ct-hartford-hiper2155.javanet.com [209.150.38.157]) by mail1.javanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA17279 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 22:09:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:09:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: media@mail1.nai.net Subject: Re: possible bug in 3.1 STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:53 PM -0700 5/17/99, Doug White wrote: > >> Following the advice of the this list, I installed >> 3.1-STABLE-1990503 in place of 3.1-RELEASE. I downloaded all new files from >> releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/spapshots/i386 and made new floppies. I am >> using a 133 Pentium w/64M RAM with no cd. I then booted from the floppies >> and went to install from my primary DOS partition. >> >> It refused to install the src and XFree86 files. >> >> I checked the list of distribution files it couldn't transfer or extract >> against the contents of C:\FREEBSD\xf86333 and C:\FREEBSD\src and they are >> all there. > >Ah, this is what I ran into. The ERRATA says you must place the files in >a RELEASES\ directory for DOS installs to work properly. > >>From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html: > >o DOS installation fails when you actually follow the instructions > to install stuff under C:\FREEBSD\BIN\... and so on. > >Fix: The instructions are correct but the code was wrong in 3.1-RELEASE, > sysinstall looking instead directly under C:\ (e.g. C:\BIN\...) > or under C:\RELEASES\ (C:\RELEASES\BIN\... and so on). Fixed > in 3.1-STABLE. It says "Fixed in 3.1-STABLE." I am using 3.1-STABLE, and it found bin, man, des, etc., without any problem. The only thing the Errata says about X and src is that you have to reboot first, and I've rebooted many times already. Still, I'm getting a broken pipe error every time which makes think it's a bug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message