From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 05:25:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32F116A4DA for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:25:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD2343D46 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:25:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so32169pye for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:25:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a3jJbnQuU26aSG47l7sfSiF6+tzVGAytUs38pLFjvl1jwXJ457rFk9rIp1XrE+xThskuM6gA/MXTg5pT/8D9sAMGzC9eyPzUw5TiTEpMSS6JtIgoXHpVM37KBVO8TosZjM7pBEBFEkTPytHdLlTdlq+zUiHIfomTOLhKY2tAbFE= Received: by 10.35.98.6 with SMTP id a6mr17022937pym; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.38.13 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:55:27 +0530 From: Subhro To: "E. Gad" In-Reply-To: <20060823043736.24143.qmail@web35503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060823043736.24143.qmail@web35503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:25:29 -0000 Hello, Welcome to the world of FreeBSD. First of all, why are you trying to install binaries? I would say it is wiser to use the port system yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. Thanks and Best Regards Subhro On 8/23/06, E. Gad wrote: > Hello > First I was directed to post the here because I posted to the stable mailing list before re-reading what it's purpose is- I apologise-. > > > I am playing with freebsd 6 on a testing box. I Upgraded l from 6.0 to 6.1 because it looked like popular opinion is that it's got a number of improvements After a few false starts and finally figuring what I did wrong it went basicly ok. > > I went to use sysinstall to install a few usefull looking items however I got a error message: > "Release 6.1-p3 not found on server" > > What is puzling is if I do essentially the samething: run pkg_add -f from the command line I seem to get some of the packages I wanted-to install. Is this normal? or did I do something wrong? > I am not entirely sure how fix this and any assistance is apreciated. > > (The free-bsd etiquite note statements says I should mention what I have done so far) > > I have started by using google to see if anyone else has this problem. I haven't found the problem on bulitin boards or the like (not yet anyway-i'll look again in the morning) > > > -thanks > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Kar Security Engineer iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Dhanshree Bldg, 1st Floor Plot XI-16, Sector V Salt Lake City 700091 India