Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:24:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com> To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Install issues Message-ID: <199604130524.BAA00100@mercury.interpath.com>
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I recently installed FreeBSD on a ProStar 9400, which has a CD-ROM, but one which, alas, neither FreeBSD or Linux can talk to and which the @#$! manufacturer cannot tell me anything about, so I had to install it by copying from cdrom to DOS partition, and then installing from the DOS partition. Some issues came up . . . Version: 2.1.0 - I could not get pkg_add to work, nor could I get the packages added from sysinstall. I ended up writing my own pkg extractor in csh, which worked just fine. The problem, as Dave Rivers (local evangalist) managed to diagnose later, was that the scripts depend on the file names ending in ".tar.gz" which, of course, they don't do when they come from a dos partition. - It was very hard to figure out much about the above failure because lots of the doc is in HTML, but lynx is a package, so of course I couldn't get it until I could get the packages, so I couldn't read the doc until I had already read it, as it were. - The FAQ on SLIP and PPP has a link to the outside world, which is more than a bit annoying when one is reading it in order to figure out how to connect to the outside world, similar to the above problem. - Finally, I had trouble with the partition editor; I was trying to first use (a) to get a default. Then I wanted to make the /usr partition a little bigger at the expense of the swap partition (which it wanted to make 43M by default for some reason). So I deleted the swap and /usr partitions, allocated a swap of 32M, and then tried to allocate /usr partition as big as the remaining space, and I couldn't. I ended up just living with the defaults, but wonder why my approach didn't cut it. -- Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On. "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
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