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From: Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net>
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Subject: Re: Installation woes
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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