Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 10:51:40 -0800 From: deborah@atm.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: NFS install 2.1 - possible bug Message-ID: <9603121851.AA29284@atm>
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After several install tries, I believe I have found a bug in the 2.1 install method when using NFS. The most annoying thing is that there is no error notification. The problem comes about if you are installing over NFS, and you neglect to create the XF86312 directory in your install image. (I neglected to do it because the 2.0.5 install worked differently as I remember). If you choose a distribution which includes XFree (I chose x-user first, then later just custom->Xfree), the installation does the requests for the pieces via NFS (which I saw on the ALT-F2 screen), but when the requests fail, no indication is printed anywhere, such as on the main install screen. Now, I know that error indications do work, because I had the compat1x and compat20 directories missing also, and they were flagged by such error messages for me. I did a search on this mailing list on the web server, and as far as I can tell, this problem has not been reported yet. Thanks, -deborah bennett ---------- Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA
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