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From: sue@zip.com.au (Sue Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Gotta Love Those FreeBSD Installs
Date: 5 Jul 1997 05:14:25 GMT
Organization: WeLearn
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pavanas abludo incusus (pavanas@meridio.ccia.com) wrote:
>
> Each and every time am install is a real adventure unlike those ho-hum
> sedate Linux ones. This last escapade brought up a few questions.
> 2) In 2.2.1 and in 2.2.2 the BSD games did not install completely or with
> proper permissions. Is there a magic incantation for this?
Me too. I found I had the sources somewhere (did I ask for that??) and was
too dumb to compile them (whatever that means) properly.
sysinstall to the rescue! configure, distributions, custom, then chose the
games. Vwoompf! They installed beautifully.
BTW, during my original install, after marking another distribution then
adking to "custom"ise it (">>"), the install routine gave me that screen
"hey, do you really mean it, say yes and I'll reformat your disk and install
this lot!!". Well I said no and went round and round the loop, no escape
till I gave in and said yes, then it did what it said it would. But I hadn't
had the chance to check exactly what my chosen distribution had included.
No games, obviously :-( I still don't know what else is in here.
I guess if you do and ask for what you're expected to, the install works
nicely. If you ummm and ahh and poke around, it can get more confused than
you are. Similar problems happened here with linux BTW, but 2.1.5 was much
worse than 2.2.1, and all were better than some commercial $oftware I use.
Regards,
-*Sue*-
sue@welearn.com.au