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From: eyfarris@gdwest.gd.com (Eblan Y Farris)
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Subject: *** 2.0.5 CD Installation ***
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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         :-)