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Operating Systems BSD FreeBSD Installation problems Post 302185603 by Techmonkey on Tuesday 15th of April 2008 11:35:33 AM
Old 04-15-2008
Thanks for your reply!

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Originally Posted by sysgate
Uh, tough one, I've never had issues installing BSD on any hardware that I had and still have. My suggestions :
try different machine - same disk
We've already successfully installed on another machine using this disk.

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try latest bsd - 7.0 on the first machine.
That would have been one of the first things I'd try, except for the fact that I need to run v6.2 Smilie

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try looking at BIOS options at boot time, something could have gone wrong.
Could you clarify this point a little? I'm not quite sure what I should be looking for.


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Last question - is this going to be server ? Because if it's intended for GUI with KDE for example, you can try PCBSD - PC-BSD - Home - it's a clone of FreeBSD 6.2
It's confusing - basically we're trying to get our heads round FreeBSD 6.2 so that we can take over maintenance of a server that is using it. So although we won't actually be using it as a true server, we need to be able to pretend it is so that we can work our way round the server (basically something to test on without messing up the real thing).

I'll keep this in mind but I'd really be more comfortable using the actual FreeBSD 6.2 as then we know software is the same across the board when it comes to trying new things.
 

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PERLFREEBSD(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					    PERLFREEBSD(1)

NAME
perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems DESCRIPTION
This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads When perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There is a bug in FreeBSD's "readdir_r" function in versions 4.5 and earlier that can cause a SEGV when reading large directories. A patch for FreeBSD libc is available (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631 ) which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD perl sets $^X where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by using "sysctl" with "KERN_PROC_PATHNAME" if that is supported, else by reading the symlink /proc/curproc/file. FreeBSD 7 and earlier has a bug where either approach sometimes returns an incorrect value (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for $^X. AUTHOR
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic and Tim Bunce. Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org. perl v5.16.2 2012-10-11 PERLFREEBSD(1)
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