From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 12:39:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA95337B85E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA226E; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:41:24 -0700 Message-ID: <39736069.DA88772A@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:37:13 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kapteyn@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BUGS ? in latest released distribution References: <002001bff01e$24b6ad20$0a01a8c0@bms> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > kapteyn@xs4all.nl wrote: > > After trying and retrying using the "official" :-) distribution cd's > from FreeBSD i found myself nowhere near a complete installation of > freebsd. > > During install i got all kinds of messages saying thate.g. > kdbase failed > xbin failed > ... I sometimes get this when I'm installing a package during the installation process, but not afterwards. I would try installing these one at a time after installation is complete, and in the proper order. Look for missing dependency errors (if any) then install those missing packages. > > Have there been wrong distibutions put onto ftp sites and distibution > disks? > I tried using FTP from friday untill sunday night. This costs me about > 2-3$ per hour.wyxv > ... > 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.... I would make sure that everything you are using is from the same version. In my case, upgrading my ports tree caused weird problems when I didn't first upgrade my base OS to STABLE. I have reluctantly resorted to using just the packages from the CDs. It sounds like you have to pay quite a bit for your connection time, so it might be worthwhile to actually purchase an official set of CDs from BSDi, or even a cheap redistro from Cheapbytes or LinuxMall. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message