From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 23:35:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.bull.se (bull.se [193.44.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35F714A08 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mar@bull.se) Received: from bull.se (eq08.bull.se [129.181.241.108]) by gate.bull.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24286 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:38:37 +0200 Received: from pcmarmob ([129.181.243.236]) by bull.se (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA17438 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:38:17 +0200 Reply-To: From: "mark rowlands" To: Subject: RE: 3.3-R install problem Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:35:36 +0200 Message-ID: <000901bf0a44$d6ea5ac0$ecf3b581@bull.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <25652.938569240@axl.noc.iafrica.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This caused problems for me, any package add that depends on anything in usr/local fails cannont open /usr/local/libexec........ for example -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sheldon Hearn Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:41 AM To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: Subject: Re: 3.3-R install problem On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:19:13 MST, "Dave Walton" wrote: > I just installed 3.3-R on a box via FTP (distribution "All"). At the > end of the install, it reported that it was unable to find distribution > "local". Did this cause the installation to fail in any noticeable way? I don't know for sure, so wait for confirmation from someone who does, but I suspect that the local distribution is for folks who want to provide additional files for installation (e.g. installed packages) for use by all machines at the site which use a local ftp server. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message