Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 15:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net> To: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> Cc: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970102151111.160A-100000@lostfork> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970102192313.006cd360@jump.net>
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> >2. When adding packages using sysinstall, it (sysinstall) complains that > >it can not find a lot of the packages (including Xfree86!). I made a boot > >floppy and boot off of the floppy and installed of the SCSI CD-ROM. > > I was in the process of sending a message about this myself. I had 14 > packages not install because it couldn't find it (including XFree86, trn, > tcp_wrappers, ssh, expect, and kermit), and another 14 with "some error" > (including jdk, emacs, and mtools). > This question that was recently answered on this list, you must have missed it: it seems sysinstall can't handle a bunch of packages at once. Use pkg_add instead, it's really much easier anyway. Andre
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