From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 28 11:47:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20851 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kadath.zeitgeist.net (zeitgeist.net [140.174.153.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20845 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ggilliss@merde.dis.org Received: from dialup-202.dis.org (dialup-202.dis.org [206.14.78.202]) by kadath.zeitgeist.net (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id LAA00520 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:46:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199606281846.LAA00520@kadath.zeitgeist.net> X-Sender: ggilliss@merde.dis.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:47:52 -0700 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install packages and broken pipe message Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please tell me what the work around for the following problem is (if others have already experienced it). While su'ed to root, mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom. Type /stand/sysinstall. Select option 9 to do post install configuration and press Enter. Select option 4 to select the installation media and press Enter. Select option 3 to use the /cdrom mount point and press Enter. Type in "/cdrom" and press Enter. Select option 8 to install packages. "Got INDEX..." message appears. Go to shells, select bash and press Enter. This works regardless of which packages or how many are selected, although the output differs slightly. Select Cancel from the Package Selection dialog. With a package that has a long description line, some of the package names display incorrectly. Press OK. An information dialog box "Adding packages/All/package.name" appears. It is overwritten by the message "Broken pipe" and the script (?) exits. Command echo no longer works after this (I cannot see what is typed). Thanks in advance.