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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.onramp.net!news From: not@this.net (Samuel S. Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Package adds barf with 2.2.1 initial install Date: 18 May 1997 09:37:52 GMT Organization: Dis Organization :-P Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5lmilg$94a@newnews.onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp10-26.ftwotx.onramp.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41203 All, I just finished the install of 2.2.1 (wiping out a 2.1.7 install I never finished configuring anyway). When I went to install packages from the packages menu, it got halfway through and stopped, on 2 different packages both times I tried it this way. When I did a vanilla install, and came back after a reboot to add packages, it went through a-ok. Is there a bug here? I'd be willing to re-install to provide more information if someone would tell me what to watch for. I was delighted to find that my ps/2 mouse, which didn't work with the psm driver on any of the 2.1.X kernels worked flawlessly with 2.2.1, leaving a free serial port for my extra modem. p.s. thanks to the entire FreeBSD team for more butt-kicking net-savy wares, and to all the people that replied to my earlier post about 3com/21140 based ethernet cards. I went with consensus, and bought the Netgear FA310tx 10/100 21140 based card, and I must say "It's like, really cool, Beavis". Just for kicks, I plugged it into the Cisco Catalyst 5000 at work, spun up an FTP to my Sun ES3000, and saw throughput that made my tongue wag :-) -- Name: Samuel S. Thomas E-mail: sthomas@konfuzed.net http://www.onramp.net/sthomas remember: THINK! [PGP public key available on request]