From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 22:14:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06620 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA06615 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roost.com (apm1-94.realtime.net [205.238.146.94]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA16805; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:12:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:15:40 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@roost.com To: Doug White cc: William Wong , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall buggy? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok! I'm not nuts! Noticed this behavior on 2.2.1-Rel CD too. I've done three installs over a lan here and the sysinstall on both floppy and hard disk does this "two things checked" when I only did one - although the install seems to be fine. Other little wiggles... 1. On one install, I boo boo the lan config part and sysinstall anounces a successful install after about one second. It just thought I was sucessful. I know better and do it right the second time. 2. I have never been able to get a package off of the CD, even when I do it as part of the install process. The error says something like "unable to fetch...", even though it reads the index, lists all the possibles and successfully gets the OS and X windows parts installed!? 3. In the "options" part of the sysinstall process, I *must* set the name to "none" not FREEBSD 2.2.1 (I think) and the FTP location to the IP of the machine with the CDROM - no directory name. (see below) I'm running an ethernet lan w/NE2000 clones in three machines. A *10yr* old 386sx 16MB and a 200MB MaxStor (very liesurely X and emacs), WinNT 32MB and 500MB - CDROM, 486 133 server w/3.5Gig (2 spindles). The latter runs Apache, htDig and Isearch. All run NFS (well the NT sort of...). Please ask me specific questions, it's the only way I can help sort out sysinstall. I'm not a programmer or even particularly comp lit. For all of you trying your first install, I built this lan, with *very* little experience, but by: 1. Reading ALL the READMEs DOCs etc. *before* installing. 2. Planning. 3. Backing up. 4. Doing it, with patience - don't rush it. It does work.:-) [sermon over] Anyway, it keeps me out of the ... , nevermind.;-) John On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, William Wong wrote: > > > I just got a hold of the 2.2.2-RELEASE CD and went for an install on one of my > > disks. I noticed that on some of the screens, more than one of the options > > were checked. I don't remember this happening before (pre 2.2.x). It a makes [snip]... > > So, was this only me or is there really something going on with sysinstall? > > Or is it something other than sysinstall? > > It's probably sysinstall. I've noticed problems with rc.conf generation > as well, and you're the second one today to mention repeating lines. > > In the meantime, if you get sidetracked you might try rebooting and > starting over to clear up sysinstall's state if it gets turned around. > > Oh, Jordan... > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo