From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 00:23:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA27079 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:23:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from core.apana.org.au (core.apana.org.au [203.12.236.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA27056 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from triad.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by core.apana.org.au (8.7.3/8.7.3) with UUCP id TAA25267 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:09:33 +1100 Received: by triad.apana.org.au (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Sat, 10 Feb 96 19:08:08 +1100 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New Installation From: gibney@triad.apana.org.au (John Gibney) Message-ID: <22J4iD1w165w@triad.apana.org.au> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 19:02:00 +1100 Organization: APANA in Melbourne, Australia. Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Howdy all... Just completed a new installation from a DOS partition (on first hard disk, 850MB) and have an entier 425MB second hard disk containing FreeBSD 2.1R. Unix side of things seems to work Ok but I can't install any of the packages. The INDEX file is located Ok and the items are all displayed in the menu but when I select an item to install and it goes to try and pkg_add it, it comes up with an error (exits with -1 appears on VT2). The directory I'm trying to install from looks like: Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_620 Serial number is 2A09:1ACE Directory of c:\freebsd\packages\*.* ALL 2-09-96 7:13p APPLICAT 2-10-96 1:01p ARCHIVER 2-10-96 1:01p AUDIO 2-10-96 1:01p BENCHMAR 2-10-96 1:01p CAD 2-10-96 1:01p COMMS 2-10-96 1:01p DATABASE 2-10-96 1:01p DEVELOPM 2-10-96 1:01p DOCUMENT 2-10-96 1:01p EDITORS 2-10-96 1:01p EMULATIO 2-10-96 1:01p GAMES 2-10-96 1:01p GRAPHICS 2-10-96 1:01p JAPANESE 2-10-96 1:01p LANGUAGE 2-10-96 1:01p LIBRARIE 2-10-96 1:01p MAIL 2-10-96 1:01p MATH 2-10-96 1:01p NETWORKI 2-10-96 1:01p NEWS 2-10-96 1:01p PLAN9 2-10-96 1:01p PRINTING 2-10-96 1:01p PROGRAMM 2-10-96 1:01p SECURITY 2-10-96 1:01p SHELLS 2-10-96 1:01p SYSUTILS 2-10-96 1:01p UTILITIE 2-10-96 1:01p X11 2-10-96 1:01p 00_TRANS.TBL 1453 11-18-95 3:41a INDEX 57118 11-18-95 3:37a INDEX.TXT 56312 11-18-95 3:37a README 857 11-18-95 3:37a 115,740 bytes in 4 files and 29 dirs 163,840 bytes allocated 212,090,880 bytes free ...and the required files are the same as in the CD-ROM, from which I CAN'T install, as it's unsupported. Specifically, I'm trying to install lynx, so I can read the handbook, etc. Any clues?? Thanks. John P.S. I installed the system with DEBUG on and now there's all these messages on VT2 all the time. Can they be removed/DEBUG turned-off somehow on startup? -- John Gibney /\/\ . o O ( Boomerangs... Kites... Music... ) South Blackburn (o.o ) Home: gibney@triad.apana.org.au AUSTRALIA >^ < Work: gibneyj@vrnotes.roads.vic.gov.au