From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 16:29:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25124 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:29:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p01.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25117 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA01372; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:29:18 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:29:17 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: David Shanes cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports, Packages and sysinstall In-Reply-To: <001701be459c$546c9710$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Shanes wrote: > OK I guess these are 2 questions... > > 1. I went to the Ports page at FBSD.org and downloaded the ports > upgrade for my 2.2.6 release. > The I did and add_pkg 227upgr.tgz and it seemed to install > correctly. I looked in the /usr directory and there is *no* /ports > subdirectory. I thought that the pkg_add upgradefilename installed > the ports? > No, that just installs the updated /usr/share/mk/*.mk files needed for the ports collection. You need to install the ports separately. > 2. Next I figured I would just run sysinstall again to install the > ports and when I ran /stand/sysinstall from root's home directory - > I get the screen to shift to graphics and then it blows up and locks > up my system with lots of error messages. They start like this: > "wd3: wdcontrol:recal failed reading fsbn 0wd3: status 7f(rdy, wrt > flt, seekdone, drq, ecc_cor, index, err) error wd3: wdunwedge > failed...." > Hopefully someone else will have an answer to this one, because I don't. I've never seen that happen before. If you get stuck and can't get sysinstall working, you could always grab the ports tarball (ports.tar.gz) from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ and uncompress it in /usr. Hope this helps.. -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message