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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.7 installation failed, files "not really there"?
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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