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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:55:04 -0400
To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: something not quite right with snapshots
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At 02:58 PM 10/5/01 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:49:04PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > I ran into something strange while trying to install today's snapshot off
> > releng4.freebsd.org.  Choosing a standard distribution, it goes through 
> 141
> > of 141 chunks, but after the last one, it says something like "could not
> > fetch /bin. do you want to try again."  If you hit yes, it downloads
> > everything again. If you say no, it skips to the next section docs where I
> > am right now.  Anyone have a guess as to what might cause this ?
>
>The same thing happened to me, on two separate installations. I simply hit 
>"No"
>each time it asked if I wanted to try again, and, aside from it being very
>annoying, everything was installed normally.

Yes, same here. All went well, however the defaults for a new user's shell 
were missing. IIRC, it would usually show /bin/sh where as now, it was 
blank as well as the suggested GID and UID.

         ---Mike


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