From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 10:37:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wvdhhr.org (www.dhhr.state.wv.us [129.71.222.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 538D137B72B for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charlesmorris@wvdhhr.org) Received: from DHHR-Message_Server by mail.wvdhhr.org with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:35:25 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.3 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:35:17 -0400 From: "Charles Morris" To: Subject: installing packages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am able to successfully install freeBSD 4.2 release and x11 from a DOS = hard drive, but have run into constant problems while installing anything = from the packages distribution. I try to install sawfish and gnome using = sysinstall but after reading the index, I receive error messages saying it = is unable to fetch any of the componets, even though they are in the = proper directories on the DOS drive. =20 I then tried to install over a PPP connection, but mysteriously the = process stops downloading after receiving about 17408 bytes of the first = componet (gettext) . I tried this several times using different ftp sites = and between passive and active modes, but the results are always identical.= It reads the index, starts downloading gettext, and then just stops = downloading anything. The modem lights show it is still online, but it = just stops downloading.=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message