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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2nd 2.1R install by newbie Date: 19 Mar 1996 00:01:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4ikthm$sl4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ihqoq$eo4@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb) writes: > Are the pkg_* utilities > smart enough to be able to tell me which packages are > bad (I assume that something didn't install correctly)? Nope, but with something like ``ls -lt'', or ``find ... -newer'', you should be able to find which files might be empty. Packages install completely under /usr/local (except XFree86, of course), so this is the point where to start the search. Once you know what is damaged, you best pkg_remove the affected packages completely. > As a suggestion, it would sure be nice to have an > extra VC w/ getty (ALT-F3) for the boot floppy kernels, > so you could login in as root and monitor a new install > (with df and perhaps a small set of binaries) to see > how things are progressing. You mean something like the ``emergency holographic shell'' that is running on the fourth (Alt-F4) VT? It's chroot'ed, but that shouldn't hurt you in this case. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)