From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 12:44:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F5716A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.texoma.net (mail1.texoma.net [209.151.96.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74D6443D1D for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhouchin@texoma.net) Received: (qmail 29535 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 20:44:02 -0000 Received: from ppp-151-101-037.texoma.net (HELO texoma.net) (209.151.101.37) by mail1.texoma.net with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 20:44:02 -0000 Message-ID: <3FD785F2.9070907@texoma.net> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:45:38 -0600 From: Jimmie Houchin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: amd64 freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Packages/Ports problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:44:08 -0000 Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 from the beta iso onto my new dual Opteron 240 server. The server has the Arima RioWorks HDAMA motherboard, onboard Promise SATA RAID, onboard dual gb Broadcom 5702 nics. I have 4 250gb SATA drives and 4gb ram. I have attempted to install: Debian (unsuccessful, does not recognize hardware) NetBSD (unsuccessful, boot floppies and cd do not boot correctly) Gentoo Linux (successful but with issues) I currently run Gentoo on my desktop machine. I might be reconsidering my desktop decision after what I've seen here. :) The FreeBSD install (with the exception below) was quite a refreshing experience. The CD booted without problem, recognized all my hardware. It is the only install which recognized everything. It even recognized that the Promise RAID had two different arrays configured by the Promise BIOS. Gentoo didn't/doesn't recognize that at all. Impressive. :) The sysinstall program is a nice installer with plenty of helps. This is my first FreeBSD install and I am very pleased with my experience. My problem is that in the install it fails to get the selected packages. It installs the base and such correctly. I am left with a bootable system, but no XFree86 and other stuff. I get this message even after successfully downloading via ftp the base and other core stuff. "Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media." It says something about its probably not on the mirror. I am using the primary ftp mirrors and also #7. My initial thought was that the binary packages aren't available for amd64. So I tried to pkg_add -r cvsup This too gave me an error about no such file on the server. I've tried to read the docs and search the mailing list archives but haven't found where I am going wrong. Any help in getting the rest of the system installing would be greatly appreciated. I am very pleased and impressed thus far and look forward to completing this install. Thanks, Jimmie Houchin