From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 29 4:18:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gate.bull.se (bull.se [193.44.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EF014DA4 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 04:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mar@bull.se) Received: from bull.se (eq08.bull.se [129.181.241.108]) by gate.bull.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA35020; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:21:28 +0200 Received: from pcmarmob ([129.181.243.236]) by bull.se (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08860; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:21:08 +0200 Reply-To: From: "mark rowlands" To: Cc: Subject: RE: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on installation media Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <001201bf0a6c$56aeb860$ecf3b581@bull.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <001d01bf09f4$909705f0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org it's ok, I've always been to dumb to work out when my intelligence is being insulted :-) Yes it is the first CD, I have tried two installs, 1) Full install, all binaries all source code 2) minimum install - to find out where was the naughty bit I have repeated this with a freshly downloaded iso - unpacked to a dos partition (to rule out any corruption in the burn process, I also tried a make world ( just for fun) 3.5 hours of fun. every port I have tried so far fails to install because /usr/local is empty with unable to open /usr/local/lib/ldconfig or /usr/local/libexec.... type errors when you run /stand/sysinstall - and take the post config option and install additional distribution sets e.g bin compat docs etc there is an option to install "local" - this fails with a "this does not exist on your distribution media" -----Original Message----- From: Martin Mactaggart [mailto:martinm@visualedge.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:01 PM To: mar@bull.se Subject: Re: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on installation media Which package causes the breakdown? At the risk of insulting your intelligence (I don't have any idea if you have PhD in computing or in Social Science :) are you sure you have the right CD in the drive? FreeBSD is a 4 CD set, so if you DL'd the ISO by FTP, go easy on the packages... You'll have to install a relitively minimal (well, not THAT minimal) system and then download the packages you want manually (well, not that manually) from the net. ----- Original Message ----- From: mark rowlands To: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:15 PM Subject: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on installation media Doing an install from the 3.3 CD, the above message occurs and all subseqent package installations fail. with various messages about stuff in /usr/local/libxxxx. Any words of wisdom. I have successfully installed 3.2 at home without this problem! Mark - currently ftping the contents of his home machines /usr/local in the hopelessly optimistic ambition that this will fix the problem. Rowlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message