Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:56:46 -0700 From: lottamiata@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difficulty installing 8.2 stable. Message-ID: <BANLkTi=pZct3wOs4bAo0Wsf-mFz=MxcCNQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=DNR7G4E6O720F74BDwxswGDUrFQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTikqqU8sQXVEim-97B6Lo_jS-MkWsQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=DNR7G4E6O720F74BDwxswGDUrFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Another addendum: I used the sysinstall debugger on tty1 to determine that my tarball files were not unzipped during the ISO image extraction from the .bz file. Does anyone know how I can both extract the ISO image and uncompress the tarballs without destroying the image? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM, <lottamiata@yahoo.com> wrote: > Addendum: During the installation, I did get error messages that indicated > certain files were not being found, however I did use the complete DVD ISO > image, which I believe should have included everything and, to make sure, I > selected every package for installation. Also, the reference to Windows was > for the other machine (an older Toshiba using Vista, not 7) on which I had > burned the image disk (I completely eliminated the Windows 7 partition on > the newer machine prior to installation). > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, <lottamiata@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> To All: >> >> I installed 8.0 last year with no trouble at all. However, this year, I >> put it on a new machine (Toshiba laptop A505-S6981 running Windows 7) but I >> can't seem to get any of the port packages to install. This time I used a >> DVD ISO image, rather than a CD-ROM as before. It seems like sysinstall >> can't find necessary dependencies, although it does appear to have loaded >> the packages (e.g., X11) into the proper directories. Any idea what is >> going on? >> >> Thanks. >> > > >
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