From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 7:13:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A0737B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10756; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA00330; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00326; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Matthew K. Cowger" Cc: "Christopher W. Aiken" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Same here, I've been using 4.3 since the day it came out, and I've had no problems at all... On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Matthew K. Cowger wrote: > Perhaps you have a bad CD, as most of us have had no problems with it. I > for one, can run top just fine, and pkd_add windowmaker jst took 4 minutes. > I'm betting your instaqll media is bad and that is causing something, or > perhas your hardware finally bit the dust? > > .matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher W. > Aiken > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:36 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... > > > > I just got my 4.3CD's in the mail. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a > newbee nor am I an expert, but 4.3 is the pits compared to previous > versions. I have had the same computer/hardware for three years. I > have installed various flavors of Linux on my system w/o any problems. > I have installed FBSD 3.5/4.0/4.1/4.2 w/o any problems. Now 4.3 is > creating tons of problems. The biggest is constant system freezes > during the install. All total it took me over 8 hours to get 4.3 > installed over a period of 2 days !! A lot of my hardware was not and > is not recognized ( mouse, sound, etc. ). I never ever had any > problems like this with versions 3.5 thru 4.2. I don't know what is > going on but in my opinion 4.3 just went down hill. > > Certain commands don't work either. "top" produces a "no table found" > error. "pkg_add" for windowmaker took 25 minutes!! What a dog. > "pkg_add" for the XFree86 4.0... server actual freezes my system to > the point that nothing short of a "hard reboot" works. > > Tonight I'm going to wipe 4.3 and re-install 4.2. The 4.2 install > should take under 30 minutes, at least that's what it took the last > time. At least I'll have a working system. Maybe my dogs would like > to have my 4.3 "frizbees". > > -- > -=[cwa]=- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message