Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "Matthew K. Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu> Cc: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106211013290.28293-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <DBEDLOOHIDFHOMJIFMGMGEBKCCAA.mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
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Same here, I've been using 4.3 since the day it came out, and I've had no problems at all... On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Matthew K. Cowger wrote: > Perhaps you have a bad CD, as most of us have had no problems with it. I > for one, can run top just fine, and pkd_add windowmaker jst took 4 minutes. > I'm betting your instaqll media is bad and that is causing something, or > perhas your hardware finally bit the dust? > > .matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher W. > Aiken > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:36 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... > > > > I just got my 4.3CD's in the mail. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a > newbee nor am I an expert, but 4.3 is the pits compared to previous > versions. I have had the same computer/hardware for three years. I > have installed various flavors of Linux on my system w/o any problems. > I have installed FBSD 3.5/4.0/4.1/4.2 w/o any problems. Now 4.3 is > creating tons of problems. The biggest is constant system freezes > during the install. All total it took me over 8 hours to get 4.3 > installed over a period of 2 days !! A lot of my hardware was not and > is not recognized ( mouse, sound, etc. ). I never ever had any > problems like this with versions 3.5 thru 4.2. I don't know what is > going on but in my opinion 4.3 just went down hill. > > Certain commands don't work either. "top" produces a "no table found" > error. "pkg_add" for windowmaker took 25 minutes!! What a dog. > "pkg_add" for the XFree86 4.0... server actual freezes my system to > the point that nothing short of a "hard reboot" works. > > Tonight I'm going to wipe 4.3 and re-install 4.2. The 4.2 install > should take under 30 minutes, at least that's what it took the last > time. At least I'll have a working system. Maybe my dogs would like > to have my 4.3 "frizbees". > > -- > -=[cwa]=- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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