Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.1.7 installation failed, files "not really there"? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970320131340.4815C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970318162024.26B-100000@warp4>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > 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). This could be caused by a multitude of things. You might try NOT installing any packages, rebooting to FreeBSD, fetching the packages, and using the 'pkg_add' command to add them. > 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? They should all be OK. Emacs is *big*, so some transmission errors could have snuck in there. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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