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>From: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>CC: "Gene Bomgardner" <glbjr_01@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: sysinstall problem
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:29:35 -0700
>
>If you're running sysinstall as root, which is how you have to do it (it 
>gives
>an error if you try to run it as a user), then it's not a permissions
>problem. What happens when you try pkg_add directly?

I'm not sure how to use pkg_add directly to install the entire XFree86 
distribution. I suspect it's not a single package. Is there a list 
somewhere?

Gene

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