From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 3 6:54:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A5C14CE2 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 06:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA52099; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:54:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03975; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:58:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909031358.OAA03975@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Michael A. Endsley" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still can't install current via ftp! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:23:12 -0800." <3.0.6.32.19990902222312.0080ba30@mail.gci.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 14:58:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I just downloaded the latest floppies from current (19990827) and tried > installing current on a different machine that did not have a previous > version of FreeBSD on it. > As before (search for vty3 and Alt-F3), once I went through the novice > installation and got to the part to connect to FreeBSD, I could not get to > the vt (ALT-F3) to start ppp. > This is for a new installation. > Should I present this problem to the hackers maillist? > I really think this is a problem that should be fixed by somebody. > BTW- I did a new install of 3.2 and it worked great. It appears something > happened between 3.2 and 4.0. > Perhaps I will have to install 3.2 and then upgrade to 4.0?? > Thanks again, You should use vty2 rather than vty3. vty3 is a typo and has been fixed. The ppp startup failure has also been fixed now, so if you try a September snapshot, there should be no problem. > Michael A. Endsley > mand@alaska.com > (was al7oj@customcpu.com) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message