Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:57:41 -0500 From: "Michael Krügier" <mikee@tht.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bugs in boot floppy Message-ID: <34CCC083.3356DA43@tht.net>
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Makers of the FreeBSD boot floppy-- this is for you! There seems to be an error in the boot disk - when using the ppp dialup the ppp program gives an error when starting saying that it cannot create /var/run/tun0.pid ignoring this error and dialing to my isp i connected only to find that it could not lookup your ftp server. Problems I like to solve so I downloaded the /bin directory from the distribution and installed it from msdos... BAD MOVE the install errored out on the 16th floppy because of checksum errors. I decided to use what it had installed and i ran the emergency holographic shell. After about 3 minuits of "ls-ing" i descovedrd that the directory /var/run/ dosent exist and thats why the ppp program could not create the tunnell pipe /var/run/tun0.pid using the programs installed from the bin distribution i mkdir-ed a directory called /var/run .... and IT WORKED!!!! Please fix this problem.. a lot of people are tring to install freebsd and if there not *nix gurus they will just give up. Tired after 5 hours of work Mike Krygier
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