Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Elton Chiu <echiu@majendie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall fix causes other problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814002459.2059i-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970812181543.002d93b4@istar.ca>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Elton Chiu wrote: > I made a binary copy of sysinstall according to the instructions in the > 2.2.2 Errata by using the 2.2.2-RELENG bootup and fixit floppies. My system > was installed from the 2.2.2-RELEASE CD-ROM. When I install packages from > the CD-ROM, it will complain the CD-ROM is of a different version, which is > easily fixed by going to the install options and change the source to > 2.2.2-RELEASE. OK, check. > > When I tried to install the XFree86 distribution and nothing happened. > Then I realized sysinstall was expecting XFree86 3.3 whereas the CD-ROM > contained XFree86 3.2. How could I go about installing the XFree86 > distribution from the CD-ROM. You'll probably have to extract it manually, which isn't so bad. Once you get back up, mount the CD and use 'tar xzf /cdrom/XF8632/X32xxxx.tgz' to extract them. Replace 'xzf' with 'tzf' before extracting to figure out where the files will land. > BTW, is the CTM a lot more efficient comparing to the CVSup. I have a ~40K > (USR x2 56K) modem connection, which one should I use? CVSup is going to work better for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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