Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:22:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Darryl Williams <Darryl@etseq.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions re FreeBSD 3.3 Installation Message-ID: <19991216122254.S48955@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <41BEAA309982D31185BD00A0CC395E240F77@NTETSEQ> References: <41BEAA309982D31185BD00A0CC395E240F77@NTETSEQ>
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On Tuesday, 14 December 1999 at 21:30:53 +1100, Darryl Williams wrote: > 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. Error 1 is an abnormal termination. Reporting "error 1 messages" is like saying "we received error messages". > This would occur for approximately 30% of the packages. As others have observed, we need specifics. > 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. Again, we need details. > 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). Page 559 doesn't suggest this approach. > 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 it now superseded by something else (perhaps wmpop3?). Sorry, yes, popclient has been retired. The replacement is fetchmail. Time for another erratum, I suppose. > 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). It's difficult to guess what you've done wrong. I've never heard of anybody accidentally installing the Japanese version. > 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. No, it wouldn't be. > Once again was the problem with the CDROM or are we missing > something? There's no majordomo package on the CD-ROM, probably for copyright reasons. There is a port, though. > 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. No, unless there's a bug in the package, don't do that. It will give you more headaches in the long term. > Are in fact other users having problems obtaing successful > results/installations using the current media provided. Definitely. Based on your input, it's difficult to say what's gone wrong, but you seem to have had more trouble than most people. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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