Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 14:36:42 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: Temptation <temp@temptation.interlog.com> Cc: David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experience with the latest 2.0.5-ALPHA boot/install Message-ID: <550.802215402@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 1995 13:20:45 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9506031349.A17630-0100000@temptation.interlog.com>
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In message <Pine.3.89.9506031349.A17630-0100000@temptation.interlog.com>, Tempt ation writes: >Only have this problem with last file in bin, and someone noted that it's >looking for 59 instead of the 60 (easy for jordan to fix ) The problem is Jordan taking short cuts - only replacing [br]oot.flp in the ftp archive, when the bin/bin.* dist size (or any dist size for that matter) can change on the compile server due to code changes, and this change gets echoed into special machine readable ``info'' files in the root.flp image. Hence it tries to get the wrong number of bits. This is not generally a problem, assuming you get the root.flp from the same place you got the rest of the dists - and don't grab one of Jordan's updates by mistake. Generally, the auto-install methods should always work, as they are grabbing the root.flp from the same place as the main dists, but for manual installs, it can fall over as seen above. >Hmm, same problem I have, also Xfree if you marked that as well, but >Jordan also knows about that too. Strange. Not seen this (the info one that is). XFree86 is a known problem and is now fixed, although due to a freefall crash, it may not have been commited yet. >> 10. Entries for the configured hostname(s) didn't get added to /etc/hosts, >> so there were some complaints at boot from route and sendmail. >when you do a dos part. You then have to go Config and setup you network >card, when doing NFS or FTP it sets it up for you. I forgot about that >the first time I tried the Dos part, nothing reminds you about setting it >up network access, This ain't DOS ;) The /etc/hosts problem should now be fixed (AFAIK), and I'll prod Jordan to remind people to configure something, although in theory it should be possible to cleanly bring FreeBSD up from the install system without ANY TCP/IP interfaces configured... Gary
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