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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5R question and comments
Date: 23 Jun 1995 14:34:43 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <1995Jun21.153451.22274@system9.unisys.com>
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In article <1995Jun21.153451.22274@system9.unisys.com>, Alex Dumitru <alexd@system9.unisys.com> wrote:
>
>I have installed 2.0.5R via FTP (PPP) from the secondary site. Everything
>was very smooth until my modem decided to drop the carrier. Aborted the
>installation, pulled out the floppy, and rebooted with kernel.GENERIC.
>System seems ok, although I can't say if it's missing anything important.
As long as you got through the bindist (which is installed first
in all cases, I believe), you should be in fairly good shape. I
always install just this base distribution and reboot, just to make
sure nothing gets messed up. If the machine reboots fine, then I can
add more of the distributions by hand later.
>Guess I was a bit greedy when I asked to install everything, but (and
>here's the question) at the moment it stopped it was loading subin (91%
>done). When you ask for everything what order does it load the packages
>in? ie. I know it loaded bin ok, but x11r6 is not there. Is there a log
>somewhere of the stuff loaded?
That would be a good idea. The XFree86 distributions include a
MANIFEST file for each archive so you know exactly which files were
installed where. We should add this into the FreeBSD 2.1 tarballs.
As for the subin series, that's source code for /usr/bin stuff. If
you meant to grab the source tree, then you ought to redownload the
whole thing to be on the safe side. I can e-mail you a file listing
of all the src tarballs if you need something against which to compare
the files already on disk.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org