From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 07:14:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E86916A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 07:14:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4044B43D1D for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 07:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 6468DF; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:14:02 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200401021057.10632.ogautherot@freesurf.fr> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 03 Jan 2004 10:14:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200401021057.10632.ogautherot@freesurf.fr> Message-ID: <44wu892hfp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Olivier Gautherot Subject: Re: Problem installing the ISO images (5.1 and 5.2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:14:40 -0000 Olivier Gautherot (by way of Olivier Gautherot\ ) writes: > I'm facing a funny situation that I don't really understand... I'm currently > running 5.1 (I thought it was -STABLE but the CDROM says -RELEASE, so I'm not > completely sure as I have had it for some time). It installed painlessly. You seem to be confused about what a release is, or what a code branch is. There are some entries in the FAQ that might help explain this... > As I was reorganizing my hard disk, I thought I would upgrade to 5.2 but, for > some reason, it won't install. The CDROM image seems to have been written > fine, it boots properly, I can edit and select the various options, I can > repartition the disk (basically to erase the partition contents), the base > system loads fine ... until it tries to load the PERL package, where it > fails. As a number of packages depend on PERL, they won't install either. > This happens with both 5.2-RC1 and 5.2-RC2 (I remember seeing the same on the > latest 5.1-RELEASE too). Why not just install without perl or the dependent packages, then add them afterwards? To actually have a chance of fixing the problem, we'd need to know more details of what happens when "it fails."