Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:53:48 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Numerous minor with 2.1.6 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112185348.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970112155356.009c1100@dimaga.com>; from Eivind Eklund on Jan 12, 1997 15:53:57 %2B0100 References: <3.0.32.19970112155356.009c1100@dimaga.com>
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As Eivind Eklund wrote: > 3) Many packages missed (I don't know exactly which, due to having set 'yes > to all non-critical questions') - no solution. (Except using ports to > install them afterwards) I think that's simply a matter of using the wrong INDEX file (the one from the ports, not packages). > 4) FreeBSD happily wrote a non-functioning boot-manager on my dangerously > dedicated disk. Solution: Don't do that. (I ended up bringing the box to > another location which already had a FreeBSD-machine, Known problem. You are prevented from this if you go straight through the menus, but not if you go back to the partition editor. Sysinstall needs some overhaul to handle all ``DD'' situations correctly (it should also detect if an existing disk did already come in in DD mode). > 7) The lynx port was 2.5FM - which no longer exist on the FTP sites > mentioned. Solution: I grabbed the -current ports collection, and > installed 2.6FM from it. Not free of problems - the MD5 checksum was wrong > (but the program worked when I disabled MD5). That's already fixed in 2.2 (and we can't do much about 2.1.6). 2.2's sysinstall uses 2.6something. > 8) The version of X downloaded is for 2.2 - it requires libc.so.3.0 > I've reported this to jmz@freebsd.org (maintainer for the port), but don't > know if it has been fixed (no reply yet). Solution for me: download the > 2.1.5 archives from xfree86.cdrom.com, and replace the distribution. There's supoosedly also an XFree86 3.2 for FreeBSD 2.1.x. I hope it found the way onto the CD-ROM... > 10) XFree86 3.2 would detect my Matrox Millenium 2064W, and all > documentation claim that the SVGA server support it - but it didn't work. That's something you should better report to the XFree86 folks (though there's an off chance that David Dawes will pick it up here, too). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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