From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 20 12:48:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scanner.engnet.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D7A37B404; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bobj@localhost) by scanner.engnet.ufl.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5KJmBu17844; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:48:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bobj) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:48:11 -0400 From: Bob Johnson To: bmah@FreeBSD.org Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Errata on CDROM installs (was Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release) Message-ID: <20020620194811.GA17823@scanner.engnet.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) wrote: >If memory serves me right, Bob Johnson wrote: > >> >> I suggest adding something to explain that during install, you need >> to hit alt-F2 to see the console messages. People reading this are >> likely to be inexperienced, else they would have already seen this >> on -stable or -questions. > >OK. At what point should they do this? > Hmm. How to describe it? As I recall, it's something like this: If the installation hangs up copying chunk 1 of the /bin directory, they probably have this problem, and can confirm it by pressing alt-F2 and looking for the console messages described in the errata. I'm not near a system I can test it on now to make sure the details are entirely accurate. - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message