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From: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com>
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Subject: Re: X gets left out of install of 3.0-19980711-SNAP 
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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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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