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 > > > >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 > > -- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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