Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:57:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> To: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X gets left out of install of 3.0-19980711-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717135555.359N-100000@cole.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717152923.9619F-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com>
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Just to clarify -- Yes I do have XFree86 on the CD in the correct place. And Yes, sysinstall is failing silently. Tom On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jason Young wrote: > > This happened several times to me. It would install compat21, but nothing > else. Eventually, I found out that ftp2.freebsd.org doesn't have XFree86. > I switched over to ftp3 which does, and it was copacetic from there. > > Sysinstall naturally can't install what isn't there, but it would be nice > if it would at least complain about it. Sysinstall knows to complain about > normal dists that it can't fetch. > > I assume that he put XFree86 on the CD, but it may not be in a path that > sysinstall wants to find it in, and thus it just silently fails. > > Jason Young > ANET Chief Network Engineer > > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Hmmmm! I'll look into this. > > > > - Jordan > > > > > I just burned a bootable CD of 3.0-19980711-SNAP and did a clean install > > > from scratch off the CD. The installation was smooth and nearly flawless > > > -- the sole exception being that XFree86 was overlooked by the install > > > process even thought I selected it. Puzzled, I rebooted into my newly > > > installed system and ran /stand/sysinstall and reselected the XFree86 > > > distribution for installation but it was still ignored. I verified that I > > > was selecting distributions correctly by reselecting and reinstalling the > > > src distribution without a problem. > > > > > > So, has anyone else experienced this, have I found a real problem here, > > > or is my CD somehow corrupted? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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