Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:38:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960928161013.4212A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960928144336.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net>
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On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > I've been running Linux for about two years, and > recently decided to give FreeBSD a try. So far, > the experience has been under-whelming! Several > questions have resulted from my failed attempts to > get a working installation; at least one that is > successful in installing the app's I've requested > thru sysinstall. That's sad to hear. > The initial install (CD) failed > with the proc filesystem getting filled, and then > the remaining app's selected failed to install. I honestly don't know what's going on there. :-/ > However, they remain "installed" as far as pkg_add > is concerned, so now that I have a working system I > still can't go back and install them. How do I get > out of this catch-22? use 'pkg_delete' to delete them. If that won't remove them because it can't find all the files or the packing list is bad, try running it with the -f option. Or if you get really annoyed, you can remove the entry from /var/db/pkg directly -- but the binary & support files will be left. > Plus, can someone explain why > nearly half of the packages in /All are not really > there? Is this a problem for me because my CD is an > ATAPI? Whether I try it thru sysinstall or pkg_add > about half of them fail! In what way? ALL the packages should be in /packages/ALL, and they are symlink'd to the various directories. > Another annoying problem > for me is how do I get bash as my login shell? I've > put /usr/local/bin/bash as my shell in /etc/passwd, > but it still doesn't come up that way when I login! Make sure /usr/local/bin/bash is in /etc/shells. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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