Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:31:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> To: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: 2.1.7 installation failed, files "not really there"? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970318162024.26B-100000@warp4>
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Greetings.
I just made my first attempt at installing FreeBSD 2.1.7, but it failed.
Everything went fine for a long time, drives partitioned okay, packages
selected/installed, etc., and then I got two package errors -- one for
emacs-2, the
other for jove-4. The installation program just stopped cold. I figured
out that the other tty listed the output of the jobs, and what happened
evidently were gzip errors, with the error message from the subject line
(above).
Is there a list of packages that are corrupt, so I know what *not* to
install? I checked the docs on the freebsd.org site for an error list,
but found nothing. What other undocumented problems will I face? I don't
really have much free time now; I need to be able to do this in one more
attempt. Also -- why doesn't the installation program give the option of
aborting a specific pkg_add (or whatever), instead of just stopping the
whole thing?
Anyway, I'd appreciate any suggestions/advice you could give me. I'm new
to UNIX (I usually use OS/2), so you may need to talk down to me a little!
System is Cyrix P6-120+, 40MB RAM, 2MB 3D ProVidia card; I'm installing
from the Walnut Creek CD distribution on a Mitsumi 12X drive.
TIA,
Jeff
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Jeff Roberts jroberts@!ashland.edu strider@!acm.org
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