From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 06:12:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA17939 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 06:12:26 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA17931 ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 06:12:24 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: John Lind cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 01:15:05 CDT." <199506070615.BAA17826@starfire.mn.org> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 06:12:20 -0700 Message-ID: <17925.802530740@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 1) After you select your timezone with the CMOS clock == wall clock, > and it asks you to verify your local time, the time it gives > is not correct. Finally, you just have to lie to it and say > that it is correct, and after the system reboots from the hard > drive, things seem OK. Hmmm.. I'm about to give up on tzsetup.. :-) > 2) I didn't get all of the distributions that I asked for. Not > sure why, but XFree86 didn't come over. Can you reproduce this? Which "Update" of the floppies are you working with? The latest are stamped: Tue Jun 6 01:42:31 PDT 1995 > 3) When you ask the post-install configuration to get more packages, > it just looks for a CD-ROM. It doesn't seem to be able to do For "package" packages, right? Umm.. pkg_manage should just start up if there's no CD, otherwise it tries to start up someplace more interesting, that's the only difference.. I suppose I could have it wander over to the NFS or UFS directory of your choice, but the FTP bit would be much harder.. Someday! > Excellent work! Good stuff! Thank you! Jordan