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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uunet!easix!wup-gate.wup.de!andreas From: andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 Install... Date: 28 Nov 1994 11:39:55 GMT Organization: Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH, D-40789 Monheim Lines: 121 Message-ID: <3bcfib$moc@wup-gate.wup.de> References: <1994Nov26.165503.2828@palantir.p.tvt.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.wup.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Pries (paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se) wrote: : Yo guys... : Maybe it's my turn to pick up the conical hat now, I don't mind as : long as find out what went wrong... ;-) Maybe We can share the conical hat ;-) First of all, thanks for such a wonderful FreeBSD 2.0 !!! I finally got it installed ... but it was partly a hard way. I hope some install bugs are solved for a 2.0.1 release on CD. Hope it's not too late ! Since I had bif trouble with nearly all of the installation methods, that are part of the new installation program.... NETWORK INSTALLATION ==================== Via ftp ... doesn't work. Router was a Solaris 2.4 machine with a pppconnection to my Internet provider. ping ftp.freebsd.org worked from both: freebsd machine and Solaris machine ... Ethernet card Elite Ethercard 16 (SMC, 8013). IRQ: 9, IOMEM 0xc8000, Port: 280. The card is software configured and everything is ok, I get connections to a SS2 .... There was a message I can't remember now ... no passwd entry (8) or such ?! TAPE - INSTALLATION =================== My tape won't be recognized ... nothing is being extracted. I had to do it manually after making a shell escape with 'ESC ESC'. My configuration: 80486/33 Elitegroup, EISA, AHA 1542B (default settings), Maxtor 8760-S (ID:0), Toshiba 3401 (ID:6), Archive Viper 2525 (ID:4). tar tvf /dev/rst0 works when I type it in a shell session. But when I choose tape install from the menue, then the tape won't be attached ... you see and hear nothing ... Extraction failed after that I deceided to extract manually and do a installation from an existing partition UFS - Installation ================== I extracted it manually and tried then installation from local disk ... then I made the experience, that I had to fiddle around with symlinks, to make a package tree suitable for the install programm ../FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE/bindist/.... .... /man .... /.... and in bindist (!!!), mandist, dict .,. NFS - INSTALLATION ================== The same strangeness with paths again in NFS installation .... BTW: a note would be nice ... What about asking the user for name and IP Adress of the installation server, if nameserver IP-Addr. shell variable is "" ?! Might be easier for the ordinary user ... The example hostname:/path doesn't match an installation without DNS services. Then the NFS mount fails ... mount seems to expect mount_nfs in /usr/sbin. If you make a symlink /usr/sbin/mount_nfs -> /stand/mount_nfs, then mount complains about NFS support not compiled in. Solution, shell escape and call mount_nfs directly.nt------------------------------------------------------------------ After installation I noticed, the following things, that should be corrected ... Hope, these things are corrected before CD is being created ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------ a) /tmp doesn't have proper permissions, so editing files as normal user fails. Solution: chmod 1777 /tmp b) /etc/hostname.interface name is missing, in my case /etc/hostname.ed0 was missing ... So networking isn't setup properly since ifconfig fails because of the missing file /etc/hostname.ed0 c) The symbolic link /sys -> /usr/src/sys is missing. Would be nice to find it again there ;-) d) When exporting filesystems and mounting via NFS there is an error message, that /var/tmp/...db is missing e) maybe I'm wrong, but I think /etc/hosts is missing the hostname without domain appended and the alias 'loghost' ?! f) /sys/i386/conf/LINT is missing the option DUMMY_NOPS and TUNE_1542 for reference. I use these options without any problems ... Hope, thats all ;-) Would be nice if you could correct all or some of it before distributing the release on CD Rom !!! I think many people might have severe problems to install the release ... But if you get it installed .... GREAT OS ... It's faster then FreeBSD 1.X even with a larger kernel !!! Thanks Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH - D-40789 Monheim phone: +49 2173 3964 161 - fax: +49 2173 3964 222 - e-mail: akl@wup.de