From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 23:32:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA16976 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA16971 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:32:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from arabian.astrolab.org (dial237.nconnect.net [206.54.227.237]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA03460; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:29:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32CA12D4.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 01:31:32 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-SMP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kory Hamzeh CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kory Hamzeh wrote: Hi, > of problems I'm having: > > 1. The motherboard is a AMI Merlin DP Pentium PRO 200MHZ. Only on CPU > installed. I have installed 128 meg of ram, but freebsd only seems to see > the first 64 meg of ram. You need to build a kernel with options "MAXMEM=131072" in it. Read the GENERIC and LINT config files for descriptions of other options as well. They're in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. > 2. When adding packages using sysinstall, it (sysinstall) complains that > it can not find a lot of the packages (including Xfree86!). I made a boot > floppy and boot off of the floppy and installed of the SCSI CD-ROM. > I think I ran into the package problem when I was messing with 2.1.5. XFree is NOT a package. Provided you don't have any hardware problems, you should be able to select an X installation from your Distributions Choices Screen. X-user, X-developer, or All ( or a custom installation ) should get it. It seemed to me that sysinstall shows packages that aren't on the disk ( I could be wrong tho') > 3. After installing several packages, sysinstall start complaining that > there was some error and to check to other VTTY. In doing so, I see a lot > of "proc: system full" (or somthing similar to that, I'm not near the > machine right now). How did you set up your disk? When I set up my systems I don't create a /var partition. I create /var as /usr/var and symlink it after initial installation. If it's done this way, /var is in / until it's moved. What I'm getting at is / can fill up fast. What I generally do on fresh systems is select a Novice installation, and install the basic distributions. (ie: X-usr, X-Developer, etc) I forego ALL package installation until after I get the basic system running, and then use pkg_add or pkg_manage. For existing installations I NEVER use sysinstall. Hope this helps a little Randy