From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 11:49:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4555516A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.anything-inc.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE1F43FE5 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ) Received: from /spool/local by anything-inc.com with [XMail 1.17 (FreeBSD/Ix86) LMAIL Server] for from <>; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:59:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:59:30 -0500 From: Bob Collins To: Marty Landman Message-ID: <20031126195930.GA44983@yoda.anything-inc.com> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031126111746.01b103d8@pop.face2interface.com> <44llq3ccph.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031126171534.GA41465@yoda.anything-inc.com> <6.0.0.22.0.20031126124800.05c49d28@pop.face2interface.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031126124800.05c49d28@pop.face2interface.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Comment: No comment X-Cuse: I have none X-Editor: vi X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=3.5 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie install question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:49:46 -0000 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:15 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: > > >Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not > >an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further > >aggravation of some file broken while installing. > > What can/should I do other than make dist-clean prior to the rest? Guess I > didn't think about the issue being on my end. But of course it's possible, > not sure how to check it though. Hmm, maybe I should try another port, > something small perhaps and see if it has problems as well. I did several > installs from the ports no problem e.g. Apache, PostgreSql and then things > got a little chaotic. Samba afaik installed fine but my configuration > attempts quickly became fubar'd. I will get back to that eventually, using > ssh and ftp from my workstation is just fine for now. And my X11 install > didn't complete cuz I ran out of space on my /usr partition so I cleared > all that out. > > Other than that haven't had any problems... and have been up and running > for 2 1/2 weeks now. :) > > > Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 > Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site > Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml > Make distclean is a good start. I found on my Bellsouth DSL at home, I often have intermittent troubles installing from ports with the DSL router being (seeming) flaky during the day. I have found, empirically, during the later evening hours (9:00 or later) the same installs proceed flawlessly. Installing Apache and PostgreSQL are fairly large and would have shown troubles if your were also having intermittent connectivity like I was. Is there a chance that the limited space on /usr is the trouble with the install process now? One thing you could do, is try a simple ftp download to your /usr/ports/distfiles directory to then run the install. It is a bit of a stop gap measure, but at least get you running as you want. -- Bob