From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 13:50:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-green.research.att.com (H-135-207-30-103.research.att.com [135.207.30.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89D2158C4 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC771E00F; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:50:16 -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 QAA13514; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:50:15 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id NAA11047; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:50:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001272150.NAA11047@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Cc: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:50:15 -0800 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2g/makemail 2.9a Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >In this case, I actually assume that the DHCP server will be providing >the host name In my case (which I think might actually be fairly common), the DHCP server doesn't provide a hostname. In this case, I type in a hostname which gets later ignored and sysinstall doesn't write anything to rc.conf. Perhaps if the DHCP server doesn't provide a hostname, sysinstall can use the one that the user supplied? >> 2. motd was full of garbage. I realize now that I should have saved it >> but I wasn't really thinking. > >Huh? When I logged in, I thought the machine had freaked out and locked up because there was all sorts of garbage (mostly 8-bit characters) on the screen, but on further examination it was just the contents of /etc/motd. It would be much easier to explain if I had saved it =) I can't repeat the keyboard thing, so I can't expect you to -- just something annoying that happened. I dunno what to suggest about /usr/X11R6/lib/aout. Earlier X distributions came with it; perhaps just copy the directory from an earlier one? Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message