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From: Joshua Lackey <jlackey@math.arizona.edu>
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Subject: FreeBSD 2.0.5a
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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:26:24 -0700 (MST)
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I just finished, I think, installing 2.0.5a -- looks great!

Here are some bugs I have come across, this is not an exhaustive list
but it is all I thought to write down.

Installing from a dos partition does not work.  It has something to do
with your mount command.  Installing from a floppy does not work, again
something to do with the mount command.  I eventually installed from
a dos partition -- but I told the install program that it was just a
regular filesystem.  (Since I have my dos partition mounted anyway.)
Your script also tries to mount the dos partition as /dos, this could
cause some problems if I already had something named /dos there.  I
also had to reboot and put all the bin.* files in a directory named
bin, the compat* files in a directory named compat1x, and compat20, etc.  
I was just thinking you could make that part a little smarter, you could
first look in the directory bin/ for the bin.* files and if you don't
find them there look in the current directory.

During installation, the error handling is messed up.  (Real messed up.
Sorry I can't be more exact.  It randomly tells you that it can't extract
something, and then it does.  It tells you it wasn't able to extract the
whole set, and then it says that installation is completed...)

At the end of gunzip'ing the bin.* files, it gives a:

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- crc error.

Still, it seems to work, at least I haven't found anything missing yet. :)

It extracted everything I told it to, but I still get a "not everything 
requested extracted" error.  (Or something to that effect.) And then it 
says it completed satisfactorily.  (Again your error handling.)

During the post-installation configuration there are also some minor (?)
bugs.  When you add a user, the user's password shows as you type it in.
(While root's password does not.)  I gave routed some flags but they didn't
get added to the correct file in /etc.  I can't even telnet localhost
but that might be my fault...

Well, reading this over I see I am kinda rambling -- I hope you can extract
some useful information from this piece of mail.  In any case I am very
impressed with the whole distribution and I really like the installation
interface!!!  You should make a version of it available on the system
so that we could use it to reconfigure the network, add users, install
and configure X, etc.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks,

Josh.

-- 
jlackey@math.arizona.edu