From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 11:40:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6363237BA03; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kapteyn@xs4all.nl) Received: from bms (dc2-isdn1027.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.152.3]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA15750; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:39:56 +0200 (CEST) From: kapteyn@xs4all.nl Message-ID: <002001bff01e$24b6ad20$0a01a8c0@bms> To: Cc: Subject: BUGS ? in latest released distribution Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:38:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01BFF02E.E797A460" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01BFF02E.E797A460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear sir/ madam, After trying and retrying using the "official" :-) distribution cd's = from FreeBSD i found myself nowhere near a complete installation of = freebsd. During install i got all kinds of messages saying thate.g. kdbase failed xbin failed kdebase failed gtk-12.7. failed errorcode 1 xman failed etc. Have there been wrong distibutions put onto ftp sites and distibution = disks? I tried using FTP from friday untill sunday night. This costs me about = 2-3$ per hour.=20 Before that i downloaded an iso image and put that on cd; after that i = tried another from "Maarten Steenbergen" and that did not work either. I have put all kinds of questions into several newsgroups. Bu basically = the answers are no good to me, as i am not able to put a good freebsd = installation on my pc.... That is very awkward, as Freebsd recognises e.g. my ethernet card = whereas (mandrake) linux does not do that (yet). can you help me? Regards, Wim Kapteyn ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01BFF02E.E797A460 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear sir/ madam,
 
After trying and retrying using the = "official"=20 :-) distribution cd's from FreeBSD i found myself nowhere near a = complete=20 installation of freebsd.
 
During install i got all kinds of = messages saying=20 thate.g.
kdbase failed
xbin failed
kdebase failed
gtk-12.7. failed errorcode = 1
xman failed
etc.
 
Have there been wrong distibutions put = onto ftp=20 sites and distibution disks?
I tried using FTP from friday untill = sunday night.=20 This costs me about 2-3$ per hour.
 
Before that i downloaded an iso image = and put that=20 on cd; after that i tried another from "Maarten Steenbergen" and that = did not=20 work either.
 
I have put all kinds of questions into = several=20 newsgroups. Bu basically the answers are no good to me, as i am not able = to put=20 a good freebsd installation on my pc....
That is very awkward, as Freebsd = recognises e.g. my=20 ethernet card whereas (mandrake) linux does not do that = (yet).
 
can you help me?
 
Regards,
Wim Kapteyn
 
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