Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall buggy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721101607.1259I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199707201836.LAA28222@wiley.csusb.edu>
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On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, William Wong wrote: > I just got a hold of the 2.2.2-RELEASE CD and went for an install on one of my > disks. I noticed that on some of the screens, more than one of the options > were checked. I don't remember this happening before (pre 2.2.x). It a makes > it a little confusing as to just what options I did choose. Also, my rc.conf > gets corrupted with repeated lines. Furthermore, choosing the networking > option (ppp) and then filling in some of the fields such as the hostname of my > computer, etc. was fine. But going back to it using sysinstall, the > screen has a "Set this!" or something like it written all over the screen. > The words were written all over the graphics area and not confined to just > within the fields areas. There might be other anonmalies... > > So, was this only me or is there really something going on with sysinstall? > Or is it something other than sysinstall? It's probably sysinstall. I've noticed problems with rc.conf generation as well, and you're the second one today to mention repeating lines. In the meantime, if you get sidetracked you might try rebooting and starting over to clear up sysinstall's state if it gets turned around. Oh, Jordan... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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