Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:32:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X gets left out of install of 3.0-19980711-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717152923.9619F-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> In-Reply-To: <19682.900705459@time.cdrom.com>
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This happened several times to me. It would install compat21, but nothing else. Eventually, I found out that ftp2.freebsd.org doesn't have XFree86. I switched over to ftp3 which does, and it was copacetic from there. Sysinstall naturally can't install what isn't there, but it would be nice if it would at least complain about it. Sysinstall knows to complain about normal dists that it can't fetch. I assume that he put XFree86 on the CD, but it may not be in a path that sysinstall wants to find it in, and thus it just silently fails. Jason Young ANET Chief Network Engineer On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hmmmm! I'll look into this. > > - Jordan > > > I just burned a bootable CD of 3.0-19980711-SNAP and did a clean install > > from scratch off the CD. The installation was smooth and nearly flawless > > -- the sole exception being that XFree86 was overlooked by the install > > process even thought I selected it. Puzzled, I rebooted into my newly > > installed system and ran /stand/sysinstall and reselected the XFree86 > > distribution for installation but it was still ignored. I verified that I > > was selecting distributions correctly by reselecting and reinstalling the > > src distribution without a problem. > > > > So, has anyone else experienced this, have I found a real problem here, > > or is my CD somehow corrupted? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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