From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:20:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18920 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18914 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14311; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Robert C. Penn" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install problems for 2.2-961014-SNAP X11 In-Reply-To: <326EB5AF.6743@DigitalFabrics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Robert C. Penn wrote: > I'm having problems install the X Window system via ftp.FreeBSD.org. > The failure message just says it couldn't install the package. > I sure could use some help. You have to install all the pieces. Try extracting the bits from the install archives (in /dist on the cdrom) since the port is often broken. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major