Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:14:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 971026 wouldn't let me set timezone Message-ID: <19971028101446.08677@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01bce331$b4366e60$513654c7@cello.synapse.net>; from Evan Champion on Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 06:40:27PM -0500 References: <01bce331$b4366e60$513654c7@cello.synapse.net>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 06:40:27PM -0500, Evan Champion wrote: >> 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. Ah, now I understand. I haven't kept the original message, but I can't recall seeing a mention of sysinstall. If I missed that, my apologies. >>> 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. Sure, I can understand that you get a bit frustrated after lots of messing around. It happens to all of us. But seriously, what do you expect anybody to be able to do with a statement like the one above? > 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... Yes, but it could be on your CD-ROM. You could have done the gzip -t yourself. BTW, your mailer mauls text. Note the >>> quotes above? This is a "feature" of many Microsoft mailers. I've been told you can turn it off, but I don't know how. Greg
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