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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:56:39 PST."
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:28:10 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> 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).

In this case, I actually assume that the DHCP server will be providing
the host name and specifically *ignore* the user-provide hostname
field since our dhcp client integration is still a bit green and
you'll just override the DHCP server assignment for the hostname with
the user-defined one if it's written to rc.conf.

> 2. motd was full of garbage.  I realize now that I should have saved it
> but I wasn't really thinking.

Huh?

> 3. On the first reboot after installing, the keyboard was in a funny
> state.

Urk, can't reproduce it.  I need a reproducible sequence of operations
before we'll have any hope of tackling this one.

> Control-alt-del definitely didn't work, so I had to power off and
> reboot.  This hasn't repeated itself.

Same here.

> 4. X didn't come with /usr/X11R6/lib/aout, so I can't run netscape.

I guess we need to build our own XF86 distribution with the a.out
libraries built or we need to somehow stuff those into a compat dist.
Ugh, either option is pretty ugly. :)

- Jordan


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