From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 23:40:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA00372 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 23:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00265 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 23:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA22621; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:36:20 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma022619; Wed Nov 13 09:36:06 1996 Message-ID: <32897A86.56BC@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:36:38 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parker Brown CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 Installation anomolies, related problems References: <199611130559.VAA02709@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Parker Brown wrote: > > 1.44 external, Cirrus5424. > User: exp with Minix, Linux, BSD 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, but still not a > qualified geek. > > BSD loaded onto first 700 MB of second HDD (wd1a), always choosing > novice & defaults. First time all went well until about half way > through packages installation, began receiving constant failure > messages. screen messages indicated proc table overflows. Known problem with sysinstall... > > Second installation, started at beginning again, but this time just got > a clean BSD and X-windows setup, then booted that, reconfigured the > kernel and booted that. Clean. Then, as root, mounted the CD_ROM, > entered /stand/sysinstall and tried to install the packages again. No > proc table overflows this time, but the emacs installation blew up with > (and this is a quote) "some error", and of course this time > only switched me to an alternate console, not the error msg screen of > the installation kernel. Also, got several "unable to fetch" messages > for rzsz, wine, uzap, kermit, spice and netscape. Hard to understand > why they would be there to select if not included on the CD. Called > Walnut Creek, where I got it from, and they guy just said "package that > up just like you told it to me and e-mail it to freebsd.org". At least > in 2.1.0 there was a setup to ftp netscape, which I can understand, but > this seems different. Can you guys please help? If you have a working system, the easiest thing to do would be to directly use pkg_add (do man pkg_add, but there's not much to it). This will probably show you the exact errors. You may wish to first delete packages that weren't installed successfuly (use pkg_delete for that). Some packages are not included on the CD because of licensing considerations. Netscape, for example, is commercial software and cannot be redistributed. You *can* install it as a port (look in the handbook about ports installation). This would automatically fetch the required files from ftp.netscape.com or whatever. You will, of course, need Internet access to install that. > > ALSO, I'm really frustrated with internet access thru BSD (I have to > use DOS/Win to access my ppp account, and I'm not a real Microsoft > fan). I've got ppp to the point where I respond to the Netcom username > and password prompt, and at that point my ppp prompt looks something [snip] Sorry, don't know much about ppp (I have a permanent FR conection, lucky me :-)). You may get better replies next time if you post questions about different subjects in separate messages. > > Thanks for your help. Nadav