Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:30:53 +1100 From: Darryl Williams <Darryl@etseq.com.au> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Questions re FreeBSD 3.3 Installation Message-ID: <41BEAA309982D31185BD00A0CC395E240F77@NTETSEQ>
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We at Etseq IT (Melbourne, Australia) recently purchased the FreeBSD 3.3 Power Pak installation package from Walnut Creek CDROM (ie 4 X 3.3 FreeBSD CDs, 6 X FreeBSD Toolkit CDs and the Complete FreeBSD manual/book) and are undergoing a number of problems which may possibly be related to the installation media provided (See original Email request/invoice below). Some of the specific problems are: 1. During installation of some of the Ports Collection packages it was continually noted that a number of packages were not successfully loaded with many Error 1 messages reported generally at the stage (possibly during) that pkg_add was being employed. This would occur for approximately 30% of the packages. In particular it was noted for qpopper and some netscape items. After the Ports Collection installation was completed it was attempted to manually install the qpopper2.53 package (using pkg_add) from the tgz file located in packages/mail on the CDROM (#1) but this was not successful, even a simple unix copy of the file from the CDROM to the FREEBSD Unix box (using cp) was not possible. A download file from www.qualcomm.com was eventually obtained and this seemed to be successfully loaded enabling POP3 to be initiated and tested (refer also to page 559 of the Complete FreeBSD Handbook). 2. The required installation of popclient (v???) did not result (refer also p 560 of Handbook). Is this indeed a problem? It was noted that no references to popclient files were available on CD#1. Is there indeed another source for this package or indeed is it now superseded by something else (perhaps wmpop3?). 3. As far as the Netscape browser is concerned (eithet 4.0 or 4.6 Communicator and Navigator). We appear only at present to have access to a Japanese version (ie weird characters) during an X Windows session. Is this possible? Is there an obvious solution/remedy? (Refer also p 564-567 of Handbook). 4. The majordomo (v1.94.4?) package did not appear to be successfully loaded (this is a mailing lists package). There appeared to be no specific package files for this and even a downloaded .tar.Z file from SGI did not appear to be of assistance. Once again was the problem with the CDROM or are we missing something? We are/were attempting to install FreeBSD 3.3 on a system with 48MB memory and 2.2GB HDD with no other OS (ie no Microsoft Windows partition). Any possible assistance by way of response(s) to these problems would be appreciated. In particular whether it is preferable to download package files from the Net separately as a matter of course. Are in fact other users having problems obtaing successful results/installations using the current media provided. Darryl Williams for Etseq IT Melbourne Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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