Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:56:39 -0800 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <200001271856.KAA09456@windsor.research.att.com>
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Hi, I installed 4.0 20000125-CURRENT last night on a new box, and had several problems that I wanted to share: 1. sysinstall forgot to write my hostname to /etc/rc.conf . I had gone into the options menu and selected "DHCP"; when I picked my network interface it looked for and found a DHCP server and popped up the network configuration box with most of the fields filled in (including domain name); all I did was type in a hostname. sysinstall then added the domain name to the host name and I said "OK", but that hostname never made it into rc.conf (it booted up calling itself Amnesiac). 2. motd was full of garbage. I realize now that I should have saved it but I wasn't really thinking. 3. On the first reboot after installing, the keyboard was in a funny state. Some keys would provide multiple characters, some would do none. Control-alt-del definitely didn't work, so I had to power off and reboot. This hasn't repeated itself. 4. X didn't come with /usr/X11R6/lib/aout, so I can't run netscape. I used the expert install and picked the "Install everything" option so I assumed I'd get everything =) On the plus side, being able to use DHCP rocks, and I really like how it installed the Linux packages when I picked Linux emulation. And 4.0 seems to work well with this random hardware (emachine 400), including the onboard sound and random ethernet card (linksys something). Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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