From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 27 15:18:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA04812 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA04782 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA14748; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:47:32 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971028094732.57881@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:47:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Evan Champion Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 971026 wouldn't let me set timezone References: <01bce2de$aa206c80$513654c7@cello.synapse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <01bce2de$aa206c80$513654c7@cello.synapse.net>; from Evan Champion on Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 08:46:02AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 08:46:02AM -0500, Evan Champion wrote: > Just a note that 3.0-current-971026's sysinstall won't let me set the > timezone. It seems that the timezone option is just a no-op. I don't understand. What do you mean by "setting the timezone"? Assuming that you're on the US East Coast, you would do something like: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime Are you saying this failed? > It also failed installing one of the XFree card-specific servers (sorry, I > don't remember which one). Well, you can't really expect anybody to help you then, can you? Greg