Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:37:18 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD AMD64 Current] passive ftp. WAS: proper Options release name string for: SESNAP 0730 Message-ID: <200408021537.18681.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040730211802.GP26534@sirius.firepipe.net> References: <200407301639.13753.matt@fruitsalad.org> <20040730152201.S64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> <20040730211802.GP26534@sirius.firepipe.net>
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On Friday 30 July 2004 05:18 pm, Will Andrews wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:00:39PM -0500, stuart nichols wrote: > > I don't know why it needs to do a package install on a new system (I > > would think that if its required, it might as well be in the > > distribution), but let me know what I should do from this point. When I > > accept "OK" on the packages/INDEX message it simply tries to get the > > package INDEX from the same server again without asking me if I want to > > reset the media, then it gives me the "unable to get packages/INDEX" > > message again. Endless loop. > > I don't know why it is doing that. There's no packages for any > of SESNAP's snapshots. I know the i386 ones work. Can you try a > minimal install instead of adding all the other stuff you pulled? It's going to want the perl package by default. Also, the X stuff is installed via packages. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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