From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 18:28:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA02111 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 18:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA02103 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17194; Mon, 13 May 1996 11:06:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605130136.LAA17194@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: harddisks To: f94jnh@udd.htu.se (Henrik Johansson) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:06:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Henrik Johansson" at May 10, 96 10:02:00 pm 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 Henrik Johansson stands accused of saying: > > I'm a new FreeBSD user. I bought version 2.1 from Walnut Creek. > When choosing Novice Install and selecting packages to install > I get an error message when trying to install emacs and xemacs. > other packages such as uemacs and vi installed OK. The error report > I got said something about that it could be an installation > medium (CD)error or something else, but I don't remember exactly. > Has anyone else reported this? The problem is that you don't have enough free scratch space when you're installing to unpack the (x)enacs packages - they're _huge_. You'll need to wait until you've got the system up, and try again. > Henrik -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[