From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 4 14:49:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05782 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atl.bellsouth.net (mail.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05775 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-78-182.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.78.182]) by mail.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10409; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:49:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA08240; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:04:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: dwalu@cs.bu.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting scenario w/ FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990204180437X.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:04:37 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 62 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: "Dwalu Z. Khasu" Subject: Interesting scenario w/ FreeBSD 3.0 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0500 (EST) > At the last installfest, Josef and I tried installing 3.0 on my new > Gateway (G400, 96M) and 2-3 times, we got segfaults just about the end of > the installation process and and then it aborted. Depends on when the release you were loading from was built; sysinstall was temporarily broken just recently causing me the same problem here. Thanks to Jordan and others, they seem to have it back on track (for 3.0-STABLE anyway) > > The other day, I was cleaning up using System Commander Deluxe and got an > entry in my selection window titled 'BSD' - Sure enough, I selected it and > everything seemed to come up OK. > > A couple of questions: (especially since I'm *extremely* new to freeBSD) Welcome! > > Where could it have been generated... internally by the installer or > something else being run? Sounds like you got through most of the install. > Are there any tools to validate the installation? Not knowing what to compare it against, can't say. > > Basically, I'm not so sure I can trust this install....any ideas > or suggestions? Thanx I probably wouldn't feel really good about it. You *might* be able to 'make world' and get a complete good install from there. Then again, maybe not. I'd probably reinstall :-( Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > - Dwalu > .peace > -- > I am an important person in this world - > Now is the most important time in my life - > My mistakes are my best teachers - > So I will be fearless. > - Student Creed > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message