From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 07:52:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA03081 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:52:37 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA03068 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:52:29 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA07816; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 16:52:14 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id QAA08682; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 16:52:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA27975; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 16:36:51 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503181536.QAA27975@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Comments on 2.0 release To: fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Fernando Astorga) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 16:36:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503180042.QAA12595@monterey.cea.berkeley.edu> from "Fernando Astorga" at Mar 17, 95 04:42:31 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 767 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Fernando Astorga wrote: > > 2) When I was installing the XFree86-3.1 distribution, the CD-ROM > hung forever and I had to start all over. First I thought it was the > size of it in combination with my slow controller, but when I tried > the src distribution (which is 160M vs 80M for XFree86), it worked fine. Did you try switching to the second screen (Alt-F2)? It has been an oversight in 2.0-Release (is it fixed meanwhile? Jordan?) that the XFree86 installation script didn't fit right into the sysinstall way of doing things, and simply asked its questions on its own tty (which happens to be ttyv1). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)