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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Installation problem(s)
Date: 25 Jan 1995 00:37:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <3g46fm$llc@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1995Jan24.144419.24484@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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In article <1995Jan24.144419.24484@rhrk.uni-kl.de>,
Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] <weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>- 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 ?
No idea, really. Top works for me! Are you running it as root or a normal
user? Perhaps your /dev/*mem permissions are overly restrictive.
>- 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 ?
You can still do the new bootstrap with -B. Trying to rewrite the label
will indeed have problems since the values that sysinstall chose were
somewhat less than... correct.. :-( If you've really got courage, you
can adjust them but you may lose a filesystem in the process!
>- 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 ?
Well, it's a lot bigger! :-) How much memory do you have?
>- another problem is that telnetd confuses my Lan Workplac DOS telnet
> to death. Is there a workaround ? Another termcap entry for vt220 ?
Have you tried just plain `ansi'?
>- 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 ?
Look in /cdrom/ports/distfiles and link/copy these into /usr/ports/distfiles.
> 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).
Well, each port has a potentially different site it depends on, so that's
kinda hard! :-(
>- 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.
Aber doch! They're now a standard part of the system in /usr/sbin.
>- 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 ?
Can do!
Jordan