Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:23:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation fails Message-ID: <16557.837991380@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jul 1996 06:14:16 %2B0200." <9607200414.AA09748=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl>
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> I used novice install, got twice in an fdisk-like program - > maybe once to cut a partition into slices and once to select > mount points - I just took the defaults - got a menu to tell > about IP-number and hostname, and maybe that was the last. > [But don't trust my bad memory.] I'll bet you left the nameserver field blank? This appears to be something of a fatal error now, which I'll look into, but if you set it to something you won't run afoul of this one. > In the meantime I tried a different approach and wrote > 2.1.5-RELEASE to a SCSI tape and installed from there. > The installation process was more or less successful; > it complained `couldn't extract compat1x compat20 commerce xperimnt' > even while this release did contain subdirectories Hmmmm. Are you sure? Can you show me a directory listing of the tape in question? > local time the digit 7 did not work (but 6 and 8 did) - very strange. > > But now I find that I have no means to boot this installed system! You should have said "yes" to the boot manager question. :-) Jordan
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