From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 6 09:53:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA15967 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:53:22 -0800 Received: from wavefront.wti.com (WAVEFRONT.WTI.COM [144.253.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA15961 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:53:20 -0800 Received: from walrus.wti.com by wavefront.wti.com (4.1/SMI-1.0-WTI Special) id AA09243; Mon, 6 Feb 95 09:53:16 PST Received: by walrus.wti.com (940816.SGI.8.6.9/Wavefront-Client-2.0) id JAA26296; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:51:40 -0800 From: "Steve Galle" Message-Id: <9502060951.ZM26294@walrus.wti.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 09:51:40 -0800 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 26oct94 MediaMail) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Comments re: 950202-SNAP install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Some things I noticed while installing the SNAP release: /dev entries don't seem to work first time around; I needed to do a MAKEDEV to get cuaa1 working. This is a problem because you don't have MAKEDEV until you get the bin distribution, which makes attaining the bin files over a slip connection very difficult. XFree86-3.1s installation suggests /dev/mouse or /dev/tty00 as appropriate mouse devices. Seems reasonable but stock MAKEDEV won't build either device. aside from that things are getting easier. I really like having the source distribution broken into several file sets. Does wonders for us slip/ppp folk with limited network bandwidth. Thanks for all you efforts. -Steve Galle steveg@wavefront.wti.com