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From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall bomb on 2nd running in FreeBSD 2.0.5 (fixes?)
In-Reply-To: <199711121533.KAA00820@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> from "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" at "Nov 12, 97 10:33:06 am"
To: rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:02:55 +0000 (GMT)
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> Don't laugh.....ok..... I have already.....(:+}}.....
> 
> I am trying to bring up a tiny little dumb XT crate with a 386 board in it
> and only 4 megs of ram (you know, one of those baby XT boards), and am
> stuck with trying to get 2.0.5 up on it.  It comes up fine.  BUT, the
> sysinstall dumps core on a second and subsequent invocation.  That does
> not bother me particularly, since the basic bin system is up.  I do want
> to get the manpages installed, and don't really want to reinstall from
> scratch again from 5-1/5 inch floppies (yeah, I know I am crazy to do
> floppy installs but they still work just fine on remote boxes).
> 
> My question is.....
> 
>    1.  can the sysinstall be reinvoked in some way without dumping core?
>        (probably not --- if not then it requires a complete reinstall with
>         the manpages as part of the original requested install)
> 
>    2.  if not, can the dos floppies be read in and installed manually?
>        (probably so, but I can't seem to get the right incantation going)
> 
>    3.  if not, should I just tar off the manpages on another machine and
>        port them in as a plain unix tar.  (this should be easy to do).
> 
> I tend to favor 3. as the best solution, but 2 may be doable, if I can
> get the correct incantation going.  There were no install scripts on the
> 2.0.5 that I can find compared to the later releases.
> 
> Comments or pointers appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Keys
> rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
> 

I'm fairly sure you can run a later version than that - 2.1.0, and maybe
even a later 2.1.x can install to a 4M machine.