From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 30 21:11:31 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E6816A417 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:11:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F1B13C448 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEF05C1F; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:11:29 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <47001101.5080004@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:11:29 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Jeffery References: <972994690709291217t3bdd7d5bh2890c783f2cf4cc7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <972994690709291217t3bdd7d5bh2890c783f2cf4cc7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noc@hdk5.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:11:31 -0000 James Jeffery wrote: >Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have >to be downloaded from the internet? > >Im having trouble getting packages from the web, lots of errors when i >try to install them. Everything seems dependant on everything else. > >Once i get the SSH to work i will post some output. But for now, is there >a problem installing packages on 7.0? > >Thanks >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Aloha, I have been down loading various ports for 7.0 CURRENT since January. 2007 Only problems I have had were with the Open Office Download and the Sun licensing. I have never been able to clear the errors on that issue. All the other down loads from Ports and the OS itself have been flawless on several boxes with different motherboards. Some older motherboards can give you grief with downloads and using HD's over 10 gigs or so. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol