From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 27 15:40:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA06227 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA06221 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 8326 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1997 23:40:28 -0000 Received: from cello.synapse.net (199.84.54.81) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 1997 23:40:28 -0000 From: "Evan Champion" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: Subject: Re: 971026 wouldn't let me set timezone Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:40:27 -0500 Message-ID: <01bce331$b4366e60$513654c7@cello.synapse.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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: As I wrote in the original message, I'm saying that sysinstall won't let me do it. The timezone-setting option in sysinstall seems to be a no-op; you click on it, and absolutely nothing happens. It's supposed to bring up that menu that lets me pick what country etc. I'm in, and nothing at all happens. >> 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? Maybe I won't report it next time and then it really won't help anyone. After spending 5 hours trying to load FreeBSD the last thing I thought of was "gee, maybe I should write that one down." If I'm lucky, -current will eat itself, and I can enjoy another 5 hours of downloading, and maybe I will write it down next time. The file exists but it fails gunzip'ing after a couple hundred K, so all that should be required is for someone to go to the XFree86 dist and gzip -t everything (which probably isn't such a bad idea in general as the XFree distribution doesn't get updated very often). I tried reloading the file 3 times so I'm sure it's not a figment of my computer's imagination... Evan