Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:04:37 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: dwalu@cs.bu.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting scenario w/ FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <19990204180437X.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)" <Pine.GSO.4.03.9902041432100.22052-100000@csa.bu.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9902041432100.22052-100000@csa.bu.edu>
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From: "Dwalu Z. Khasu" <dwalu@cs.bu.edu> Subject: Interesting scenario w/ FreeBSD 3.0 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0500 (EST) > At the last installfest, Josef and I tried installing 3.0 on my new > Gateway (G400, 96M) and 2-3 times, we got segfaults just about the end of > the installation process and and then it aborted. Depends on when the release you were loading from was built; sysinstall was temporarily broken just recently causing me the same problem here. Thanks to Jordan and others, they seem to have it back on track (for 3.0-STABLE anyway) > > The other day, I was cleaning up using System Commander Deluxe and got an > entry in my selection window titled 'BSD' - Sure enough, I selected it and > everything seemed to come up OK. > > A couple of questions: (especially since I'm *extremely* new to freeBSD) Welcome! > > Where could it have been generated... internally by the installer or > something else being run? Sounds like you got through most of the install. > Are there any tools to validate the installation? Not knowing what to compare it against, can't say. > > Basically, I'm not so sure I can trust this install....any ideas > or suggestions? Thanx I probably wouldn't feel really good about it. You *might* be able to 'make world' and get a complete good install from there. Then again, maybe not. I'd probably reinstall :-( Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > - Dwalu > .peace > -- > I am an important person in this world - > Now is the most important time in my life - > My mistakes are my best teachers - > So I will be fearless. > - Student Creed > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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