From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 15:11:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA02267 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02253 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA23058; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:04:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604242204.PAA23058@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Problem with 2.1R master CD? To: mc@ark.org Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:04:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "mc@ark.org" at Apr 24, 96 07:51:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have the Nov '95 Infomagic BSDisc, and a number of packages cleanly > fail to install from it, pkg_add failing with a -1 error code. I was > wondering if this is a fault with the master CD release, only > Infomagic's 2.1 distribution, or of course a problem with my individual > CD. > > Has anyone had problems installing any of these from the Infomagic > or Walnut Creek 2.1R CDs, or for that matter from any 2.1 distribution? : I have never seen an Infomagic CDROM. Is one of these packages "NetScape"? Some packages *require* you to download binaries from the net to make them operate -- they are not distributable on CDROM. Netscape is one of these. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.