From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 10:57:14 2004 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 67FDF16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:57:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F062143D31 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:57:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6UAv7wG003444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:57:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6UAv6Ql003443; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:57:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:57:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: StefanW@PObox.com Message-ID: <20040730105706.GD1956@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , StefanW@PObox.com, questions@freebsd.org References: <20040730035157.0F52943D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040730035157.0F52943D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:57:07 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall errors and debug screen 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:57:14 -0000 --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:52:08PM -0700, Stefan Warnke wrote: > when installing FreeBSD with Sysinstall it sometimes happens that an error > message comes up and the module couldn't get installed. Changing the medi= um > (CD or different ftp server) sometimes helps. It's not consistence, on one > machine I could install Samba 3 and MySQL 4, on another one I'm always > getting an error after a successful download. Samba 4 and MySql 3 can > install. Hmmm... I'd advise you to just skip adding any third party software packages during the initial installation. Once you've got FreeBSD up and running, you can install packages from the command line by: # pkg_add -r pkgname which will download the appropriate package from one of the FTP mirror sites, together with any other packages it depends on, and install them. Note that both the Samba 3 and MySQL 4 packages you want are slightly trickier to deal with as there are packages for several different versions of that software available. You'll also need to install both mysql-client and mysql-server ports. eg: # pkg_add -r mysql41-server # pkg_add -r mysql41-client You can see what packages are available by looking at eg. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/Late= st/ (Warning: that downloads a list of about 11,000 packages). Change the 'packages-4.10-release' bit to whatever is appropriate for the FreeBSD version you're running. It's also the case that the samba3 package isn't available on any of the -RELEASE CDs or package collections, as it was only renamed to that /after/ the last release (4.10-RELEASE). (Before then it was called 'samba-devel'). However, see below for how to use ports, which is probably the best way around that problem. =20 > Can anyone tell me where to find the "debug screen" with the error messag= es? > What can I do to be able to install from the ports. I'm close to download > the packages from Samba.org and MySql.com instead of wasting time with > sysinstall. Pressing Alt-F2 together will get you to a screen with debug output, but only during the initial system installation: it doesn't work if you run sysinstall(8) as a regular program on an already installed system. As for downloading the sources from samba.org or mysql.com and compiling yourself: there's a very neat and simple way of doing that with the FreeBSD ports system. eg: # cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server # make install See the handbook for details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html and here's a series on OnLamp articles which explain many tricks of the trade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBCimCiD657aJF7eIRApByAJsGbJzBXOD+CsxO5BBK0uoSugYkTQCeP4mD XYITK+sXVkyHU81oVp30mqg= =P3ha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB--