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From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Installation problem(s)
Message-ID: <1995Jan24.144419.24484@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 14:44:19 GMT
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Hello,
I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE from the WC CDROM. I've got a few
things to mention, some of them annoying, some of them real problems.
But First of all, the new install is great and a real improvement about its
predecessors.
- My main problem is that I try to run top. Both the precompiled binary
and a new compiled top from the ports collection get killed by a signal 8
floating point exception. Assuming the generic kernel lacks the
math-emulation I tried to compile a new one, but that didn't change
anything (BTW - are you supposed to get a few warnings when compiling
a kernel ?) Or am I the only guy left without a coprocessor ?
- I can not write a new Bootstrap loader. disklabel complains about the
data created during installation ('partition c d e extend media size' or
something like that) and refuses to write anything (I need a new bootstrap
loader to boot from sd1a). Does that mean that the disklabel created
during installation is somehow kaput, or does that mean the disklabel
utility has bugs ? And while we are at it - is it correct to set
maj to 4 and unit to 1 in boot.c as default for sd1a ?
- XFree86 3.1 needs about 40 seconds to start - is this normal (2.1 started
nearly immediately), and if not what can I do about that ?
- another problem is that telnetd confuses my Lan Workplac DOS telnet
to death. Is there a workaround ? Another termcap entry for vt220 ?
- when trying to compile somthing from the ports make always fetches the
original distributions from some ftp sites. Fortunately I am on the net
here - does that mean that the ports collection requires you to be online ?
(Isn't the purpose of the CDROM distribution to use FreeBSD if you are not
directly on the net ?)
Also, it would be preferable if we could have some make includes somewhere
to centrally define important mirror sites (like the closest gnu mirror -
ftp.uu.net is a lousy choice from here).
- the pkg_add/pkg_del/pkg_info tools are not on the CDROM (nor on wcarchive).
Fortunately those from the 1.1.5.1 packages directory still work, but
this is also not on the cdrom.
- I spent a lot of time trying to find out how to get my german keyboard
recognized. Having to use the wrong keyboard for real work is a mayor
pain in the a*, especially if you have to use csh without command-line
editing, so may I respectfully suggest putting the information
about kbdcontrol and vidcontrol somewhere into the readme or INSTALL file ?
Regards, and thanks in advance for any hints,
Christoph Weber-Fahr
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Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049
Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern
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