Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:44:09 +0100 From: Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Installation report RC1-cdboot Message-ID: <20020111144409.GB390@laurel.seck.home>
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As promised in <20020110224026.GA239@laurel.seck.home> to this list, I
did some installations today, using the RC1-cdboot image. I hope this
report is not to long and not "stating the obvious".
The system I used for testing is a Duron 800 with an Elitegroup K7VZA
mainboard, the IDE controller is the VIA 82C686 ATA100, having a Maxtor
4K040H2 disk (38 GB) attached. The video adaptor is a TNT2 Ultra based
el-cheapo card, network card is a 3com905C-TX.
The system was able to boot from the CD.
I then tried to perform a standard installation. I let fdisk assign the
whole disk to FreeBSD and labeled the disk according to the "auto"
values.
I could successfully install all distribution sets and the ports
collection. Linux binary compatibility could be installed and enabled
without errors too. Console, Mouse and time zone configuration were
successfull as well. The XFree 3.3.6 installation and configuration
succeeded. Installation of KDE and Gnome+Enlightenment were successful,
the installation of Gnome+Sawfish _failed_ because the sawfish package
"could not be found in the INDEX" (IIRC this has already been reported
and fixed).
Network configuration via DHCP worked.
After the installation had finished the system booted flawlessly from
the harddisk. I finally did a `make buildworld' as a small "stress test"
which finished without errors.
(Minor) issues:
1) The system had 128 MB RAM. Is there a special reason why sysinstall
calculated a swap size of 242 MB instead of, say, 256 MB (kern.maxusers
had been set automatically to 123 on this machine)?
2) When configuring the console font, there is no information that
iso-8859-15 is needed to display the EURO-symbol - I think this will be
a potential FAQ. In my opinion it is useful to move this new entry from
its position near the end of the selection list closer to the entry for
Western Europe so a new user does not need to scroll the list to find
the entry for -15.
--Thomas
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