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#! rnews 3479 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Release Install Problems. HELP! Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 11:53:26 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 63 Message-ID: <31F12B26.2C86@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4q9t84$ih@gde.GDEsystems.COM> <31E2CC3E.4D86@bgu.edu> <31E9B700.5DDE@www.play-hookey.com> <31EC9FA2.7B61@bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) J.Kelly wrote: > > > What error messages did you get? The exact messages would be very > > informative. > > If I remember right, the messages regarding the dos partition were > mainly about" skipping garbage" > or something to that effect. I think the way I resolved the problem was > to let the > partition aspect of the setup continue with it's belief that my hd had > 64 heads(16 really). > After that point all seemed well(had both int and ecxt caches off) and > the transfer from > one partition to the other went pretty smooth. > I got hung up during the post install at the Xfree setup " Failed > to locate shared file > **3.0** (sorry about the name but I do remember looking for it and the > message was right since > the files in the directory it wanted were 2.0 series, comp, cp?? 2.0. (I > downloaded all of > the compx files in the dist) > Sorry about the lack of detail looking back, it's kind of a blur. Hope > it helps. > > PS: For those of you getting pissed and thinking about Linux...Go ahead > and try it. > When BSD drops you out of the install, you can get back in, and can get > a little insight > throught the debug. Redhat, well, when you are reaching for the scroll > lock, you better > just pass that by and turn the machine off..... > I have found only one cause for the install kernel to indicate that it is dropping garbage from the various installation files: the cache RAM on the motherboard. I've gotten some "Are you sure?" questions, but I've never seen any alternative explanation. FreeBSD seems to access everything faster than DOS does, and to catch brief variations that DOS and Win-doze generally miss. As a test of this possibility, disable the External cache in the ROM BIOS setup screens and try the installation again. This should eliminate the "garbage ignored" messages and allow the FreeBSD installation to proceed. As to the shared library, the one I've seen in such complaints is a missing libc.so.3.0 library from /usr/lib. The 2.1R vdersion of this is libc.so.2.2 in the same directory. Those packages that I've loaded that want the 3.0 library are happy with a symlink to the 2.2 version. Incidentally, if you're installing X and intend to use Netscape, you *might* have to create another symlink so that Netscape can find an X11 directory where FreeBSD calls it X11R6. This used to be a requirement when the Netscape release waqs for BSDI. However, the version 3.0b5a I pulled down this morning said it was for BSD/386, so maybe that's not needed any more -- I don't know yet. I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |