Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:48:05 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: michael@tenzo.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error message in 4.2 install... Message-ID: <F177GR881Np7vXee4fD00000c10@hotmail.com>
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I get that every time I try to install X. It has happened on multiple machines with multiple CD copies, so it probably isn't your system. My solution is to install X from source. The version that comes with FreeBSD is rather old anyway (internet time) and has been eclipsed by version 4. >From: Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com> >Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Error message in 4.2 install... >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:53:58 -0700 > >I'm installing 4.2 from a CD and all goes smoothly until XFree86 gets >installed. Then I get a series of errors something like: > > Unable to transfer the PC98-Servers/X9480 distribution from acd0c. > > Do you want to try to retrieve it again? > >Each error is the same except for the last 3-4 chars of the package name. > >I'm not sure how to interpret this. Is it saying the installer is looking >for >packages that don't happen to be on my CD, or that it's encountered a data >error? > >Is this something I should be concerned about? > >Thanks. > >M. > >-- >Michael O'Henly >TENZO Design > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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