From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 31 09:29:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF6416A46D for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:1f1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF27713C4AA for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from prawn.unsane.co.uk (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9V9TgPo097998 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:43 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <47284AFF.3090000@unsane.co.uk> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:35 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071029) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas David Rivers References: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:59 -0000 Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Just wanted to report some of my results with installing > the BETA1.5 CDs.... with a CD-ONLY install. > > This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, and 300G SATA > drive and older ATAPI DVD drive (Intel DG33BU motherboard.) > > First; after you partition & label and choose your distributions; > it's time to remove the "BOOTONLY" CD and place DISC1 in the > drive. There's nothing that tells you this.. if you don't > do this, then the process merrily fails at trying to install > everything.. twice over. After that, you have an opportunity > to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive. I'd > suggest a little box saying "remove the BOOTONLY CD, insert DISC1 > and press OK" when it's time to start installing the distributions. > Umm bootonly, exactly what it says. Read section 2.13.1 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html for an explanation of what each disk contain/can be used for. If you want to install from CD just use the install disks not the bootonly. > Second - if you choose the X11 packages in the distributions; > they don't work. The install process complains that it > can't find packages/INDEX on either DISC1 or DISK2. I'm not > sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install. Sorry not sure. I tend to install any packages from ftp or just compile from ports. Vince > > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"