Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: R Robert Willman <willmann@texas.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950827235612.11992A-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950827211206.20427A-100000@millenium.texas.net>
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On Sun, 27 Aug 1995, R Robert Willman wrote: > I have run into 3 current problems when installing 2.0.5. > > 1. After trying to change the path and doing so in a session, when I > shutdown the system and restarted it, the changes to the path were gone and > were not saved. I added /usr/X11R6/bin to the path. Also, I set umask to > 022. I made these changes to try to set up X11R6 that came with your > CD-rom. Whether I shutdown and halted the system and rebooted it, or shut > it down, halted it, turned it off, and turned it back on, the attempted > changes made using "set" were not saved and I would have to do them each > time I logged in. Your start-up shell config files are what sets the path. The start up config file for the /bin/csh shell is called .cshrc, and won't show up in an ordinary listing, you have to use ls -a. That is where you have to change a line, to add more to your path. This is an extrmemly basic question, and while it's fair to ask, it makes me want to recommend you get yourself a beginners unix book. It will save you tons of frustration, believe me. If possible, get one that says it covers BSD Unix, but when you go to the bookstore, you'll see that there's a wide array to suit your tastes. Unix books are getting more popular nowadays. > > 2. After I loaded the system and rebooted it, and then shut it down, halted > it, and rebooted it, or did a shutdown and halt and turned the system off > and then on, unless I had the CD-rom drive on and the disk in it, the > system would not finish booting properly. This would happen if I turned off > the computer entirely, turned off the CD-rom drive, removed it from the SCSI > port, and put a SCSI terminator on the port at the back of the computer, and > then turned the computer back on and booted it up. This is what the screen > said at the end of the booting sequence: > > Automatic reboot in progress > /dev/rsd0a: clean, 7659 free (107 frags, 944 blocks, 0.5% fragmentation) > /dev/rsd0sle: clean, 271946 free (10354 frags, 32699 blocks, > 3.1% fragmentation) > > cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Device not configured > Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted > Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: > > If I had the CD-rom drive plugged into the computer, turned on, and had the > disk in it, the booting would complete properly and I would be at a login > in which I would put root and get into a C shell. > > 3. The X window system comes up but the screen is badly distorted, like > it is made of tweed. I can see the three windows with red bars at the > top, and that there is a clock in the upper right hand corner, but nothing > can be read. It is not fuzzy, it is tweeded-out all over, including in > the windows, as one mess. If I click the mouse in the background, the menu > comes up, and it will show highlighted words as the pointer is pulled down, > but the words cannot be read--they are too distorted. When I cycle through > the resolutions (4 of them), using cntr-alt-numpad+, the size of the screen > and windows change as each should. I have checked the config file and the > settings for the S3 chipset. My system is described below. > > I have a 486DX4/100 (AMD chip) on an Asus motherboard, 24 mb ram, an > Adaptec 2842 SCSI host bus adapter, a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM graphics > adapter, a Quantum SCSI hard drive, and a Radius PrecisionColor Display/17 > monitor. And a regular 3.5 inch floppy. I put the horizontal and vertical > frequencies from the Radius spec sheet into the config file for X11R6. > > On the hard drive I have a Novell Dos 7 partition and a Nextstep ver. 3.3 > partition. I am trying to put Free BSD on the rest of the hard disk. > > Sincerely, > Robert Willmann, Jr. > willmann@texasnet > 210-224-8866 > San Antonio, Texas > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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