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Subject: Can't install X from DOS using setup.exe
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>Number:         5710
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Can't install X from DOS using setup.exe
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 10 18:50:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 12 16:15:18 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 12 16:16:17 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Doug White
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
University of Oregon
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE install CD, running kernel/sysinstall from setup.exe program
	or (?) via DOS install method (files on FAT fs)


>Description:

	During FreeBSD installation, if the user opts to install the X Window System, when
the installer reaches the point where it will begin extracting the X archives, it complains that
it cannot find X32BIN.TGZ.  

Proble reported as per discussion with Jordan.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Install FreeBSD via DOS install method.
	

>Fix:

	None known at this time.
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@iafrica.com
Subject: Re: bin/5710: Can't install X from DOS using setup.exe
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:08:06 +0200 (SAT)

 Doug White wrote:
 
 > >Number:         5710
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       Can't install X from DOS using setup.exe
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       high
 [ ... ]
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	During FreeBSD installation, if the user opts to install the X Window System, when
 > the installer reaches the point where it will begin extracting the X archives, it complains that
 > it cannot find X32BIN.TGZ.  
 > 
 > Proble reported as per discussion with Jordan.
 [ ...]
 
 The problem is that, like sysinstall, setup.exe has the names and
 descriptions of all distribution components hard-coded.  A new version
 of setup.exe therefore has to be created when the structure of the
 distribution file-tree changes.
 
 Because the setup.exe on the 2.2.5 CD-ROM is actually the (obsolete)
 setup.exe for 2.2.0, it is expecting XFree86 3.2 rather than 3.3.1.
 
 This is really a release engineering issue.
 
 Some possible solutions:
 
     o  Ensure that an updated setup.exe is prepared (if necessary)
        before burning each new CD-ROM release
 
     o  Agree on a structured text file format, and include a file
        on the CD-ROM which setup.exe can parse, in order to construct
        its menus
 
     o  Drop setup.exe from the CD-ROM distribution
 
 Since my impression is that about three people have ever used
 setup.exe (and one of them thought it did something else), I'm
 mostly in favor of the last option, myself.  However, I don't
 mind continuing to maintain the program, if there is actually
 any need for it.
 
 --
 Robert Nordier
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: danny 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 12 16:15:18 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in 2.2.6 
>Unformatted:
