Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:43:49 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 package add from disk 2 Message-ID: <eib0u5$aje$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <MFBBIIMPKJNHFOKLHFPBAEDOCAAA.opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> References: <MFBBIIMPKJNHFOKLHFPBAEDOCAAA.opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org>
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opbc wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> I’m proud to be upgrading from 4.2 – 6.1 this morning.
> After the initial install, from disk one, I want to add some stuff that I
> like AND make X work, KDE and all that .
>
> With sysinstall, it tells me to put in disk 2 for some of the packages. It
> starts to read them, then displays a great deal of “failure” to add package
> error messages.
>
> Q: is this a common occurrence?
> Is this what happens with 6.1?
It's possible that CD2 is corrupted and/or burned at an incompatible speed.
But if you have internet connectivity, just get them from the source:
# pkg_add -r x11-fonts/webfonts
will download and install them from the source, so you know you are getting
the latest and greatest.
--
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
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