From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 1 18:32:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4650B37B405; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 18:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id F2D8B81D04; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:32:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:32:51 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: bah! sysinstall and pkg_add issues. Message-ID: <20011201203251.Z46769@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Part I: I have a laptop that I did a "generic" install with the network interface "aue0" (USB ethernet) for some reason sys-in-the-stall forgot to add a line to rc.conf: network_interfaces="aue0 lo0" so of course I booted without networking ability. Part II: pkg_add -r is smoking crack, it wants to fetch things from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/ however the files actually reside here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.4-stable/ bah! :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message