Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 19:24:45 PDT From: eyfarris@gdwest.gd.com (Eblan Y Farris) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: *** 2.0.5 CD Installation *** Message-ID: <9507110224.AA28285@gdwest.gd.com>
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I just spent the weekend installing v2.0.5 from the new Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I have a few pointers/questions. First - I am new to FreeBSD install, actually this is the first time I have done it all on my own. 1st - concern: I did not make a / partition on my hdd, I only made /swap and /usr. I was so eager to do the install that I did no prior intense study of the process. 1st - concern resolved - after a complete install I started anew and made three partitions: / <--- 30 Megs /swap <--- 32 Megs /usr <--- rest of the 1 Gig drive I also set my hdd to normal in bios and not lba. 2nd - concern: After the install (no problems), doing a complete install of the available packages turned out to be a concern. The process hangs many times - I have a list compiled of all the hangs. The hangs are errors that other packages need to be installed first and a couple of errors that emacs and xemacs are too big for the available space. 2nd - concern remedy - when the machine first appeared to hang I left there for a day (really I had to go to work) after coming back from work I did not want to reboot and discard all - so I hit the enter key. After hitting the enter key a couple of times an error message came up - I hit the enter key on that as well and continued till the end. 3rd - concern: Upon booting up it would no longer mount my SonyCDU33A, so I put the boot disk in, got a command prompt and commented out my CDROM in the /etc/fstab - and continued. 4th - concern: Upon a successful bootup I entered startx to find twm had been executed. Again I changed a startup file to take care of that. I would like to get some feedback from some experienced guys on this. My recollection is just that my recollection - If anyone has any questions on the exact steps I took - reply - I did keep notes (i.e. I know just which packages give the appearant hangs). Other than that :-)
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