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Date:      02 Apr 2001 02:02:08 EST
From:      "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net>
To:        "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, michael@tenzo.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error message in 4.2 install...
Message-ID:  <200104020702.f3272A321531@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <F177GR881Np7vXee4fD00000c10@hotmail.com>
References:  <F177GR881Np7vXee4fD00000c10@hotmail.com>

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These packages are not needed by X and are missing in 4.2-RELEASE. Just select
no / skip n you'll be fine.

Cheers,

Mark

On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:48:05 -0700, Charles Burns said:

> 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
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