Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation glitches Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121237500.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD824@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > I finally got around installing FreeBSD somewhat properly. The > problems I had encountered are: > > 1- During initial bootup, when given the possibility of booting from > a more custom kernel, I had removed the Syscon Console without > knowing what that actually did (big no-no in any circumstances). Well, you can't see anything for starters :-) If you had a terminal connected to your first serial port you'd see the boot messages. > 2- During the partitionning portion of the install, I asked to check > for bad sectors. It froze when it attempted to do so. I know that > the BAD144 implementation isn't perfect yet, but if it's there, it > should work for a fairly generic system like mine (at least there's > nothing that mentions in which known cases the check will not > react properly). If there's anything I can do, I'd like to know. You don't need to do bad144. If you do you should buy a new disk instead. > 3- I hadn't read properly the notice before setting up XFree86 That's your fault ;-) > This is a CD-Rom install of a recently purchased 2.2.7. Something > I'd like to know is that, since some things are evidently lisence or > export restricted (qt131, pgp262, rsaref) why have packages on the > first CD that require these packages installed if you don't have these > packages on the CD. Do you want to download all of KDE, or just Qt? I'll take what I can get on CD and download only what I need. :) > I'll RTFM more over the week, but it seems only normal that if you > have packages on the install CD, you'd also include all the other > packages these depend on. I've had many instances where I was getting > these messages. All the KDE stuff, which depends on qt131, was > flaging the missing package. I've been trying to run XFree86 and only > got a blank screen. Qt can't be sold for profit without a license. The Walnut Creek CD is being sold for profit. > Unless there are other issues I overlooked, my guess is that finding > the qt package will fix this last problem. I'll check on the third and > fourth CD if the package is there, if not, I may have it lying around > somewhere (hopefully). It should be at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.7/x11-toolkits/qt-1.3.1.tar.gz or thereabouts. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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