From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 10:56:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (mail-blue.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7351A15709 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806624CE1F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:56:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06868 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:56:39 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id KAA09456; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:56:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001271856.KAA09456@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:56:39 -0800 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2g/makemail 2.9a Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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