From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 11 12:40:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96EB37B567; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@worldly.org) Received: from worldly.org (ip111.salt-lake-city18.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.36.16.111]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10888; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3943EB0B.CB3B5B61@worldly.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:40:11 -0600 From: James Diefenderfer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Dunham Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org, Greg Lehey , freebsd-newbies@FREEBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: installation problems References: <200006100634.XAA15122@calamari.aero.org> <20000610202611.H22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942F563.9613BCE7@worldly.org> <20000610212117.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942FA1C.68246759@worldly.org> <20000610213641.P22659@rider.dunham.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org for those of you that are following my introduction to the installation of FreeBSD on the Dell Latitude LM laptop. the reason for my previous errors was that i was only selecting the enter key when making menu selections. i needed to use the space key to actually make the selection. i would have thought that somehow the installation menus would have given me some sort of "hey dummy make a selection" error box instead of moving forward. the installation (3rd time) is going pretty smooth except for the following: "unable to transfer" errors but these resolved themselves when i told it to try again. "unable to fetch package kdebase-1.1.2 from selected media. No package ass will be done" how do i fix this so that i will be able to use the KDE desktop environment ? this window is where i seem to get lost. "Package Selection", do i have to go through each of these and select the ones that i want ? how do i know what i want/need ? i thought i told it what i wanted when i selected the "x-developer" option under the "Choose Distro" window. since this is where i messed up the last 2 times i am waiting for help before i continue..... thanks -- James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message