From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 18:01:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21779 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dove.ark.org (mc@dove.ark.org [193.112.67.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21735 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mc@localhost) by dove.ark.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA20999; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:12:37 GMT Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:12:37 +0000 (GMT) From: "mc@ark.org" To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 2.1R master CD? In-Reply-To: <199604242204.PAA23058@phaeton.artisoft.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, 24 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I have the Nov '95 Infomagic BSDisc, and a number of packages cleanly > > fail to install from it, pkg_add failing with a -1 error code. I was > > wondering if this is a fault with the master CD release, only > > Infomagic's 2.1 distribution, or of course a problem with my individual > > CD. > > > > Has anyone had problems installing any of these from the Infomagic > > or Walnut Creek 2.1R CDs, or for that matter from any 2.1 distribution? : > > I have never seen an Infomagic CDROM. > > Is one of these packages "NetScape"? Nope. > Some packages *require* you to download binaries from the net to make > them operate -- they are not distributable on CDROM. Netscape is > one of these. [...] Martin Cooper mc@ark.org www.ark.org/~mc The Cybercafe @ The Ark admin@ark.org Phone: +44 116 2339660 St. Martin's Walk, Leicester, UK www.ark.org Fax: +44 116 2539303