Bug 13886

Summary: 3.3-RELEASE /stand/sysinstall wants XF86331, dist has XF86335
Product: Base System Reporter: jim <jim>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.3-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jim 1999-09-21 22:40:01 UTC 
when using the install floppies (kern.flp/mfsroot.flp) to install
3.3-RELEASE, the attempt to install Xfree86 fails as it attempts
to install from a directory of XF86331. the distribution has the
directory XF86335.

Fix: 

quick, symlink the directory in the distribution
longterm, adjust source for /stand/sysinstall
How-To-Repeat: # /stand/sysinstall
-> Configure
  -> Install XFree86
Comment 1 mbehrens 1999-10-06 19:59:04 UTC 
I'm inclined to think that Jim just had a really weird corrupt floppy
(maybe a corrupt floppy image?) where the 3rd LSB bit on one of the
bytes was displaced. :-)  Actually, it's not really that weird, and
might be indicative of bad memory -- when I was compiling once on a
machine with bad cache RAM, the program refused to link because a symbol
name was corrupted on just one of the bits.  I would think the same
could happen between network and local disk, or perhaps disk image and
floppy.

In any event, the following diff illustrates that dist.c was, in fact,
changed correctly for 3.3-RELEASE:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/sysinstall/dist.c.diff?r1=1.132.2.11&r2=1.132.2.12

I recommend that Jim try a new set of floppies and this PR be closed.
Comment 2 Steve Price freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-10-11 01:36:12 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I have to agree with Matt on this one. :)