Date: 12 Feb 99 14:53:23 EST From: net work <1500354@usa.net> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Message-ID: <19990212195323.7892.qmail@nw175.netaddress.usa.net>
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MY system .... Pentium-75 ram-8 megs Hard-dirve 1 gig dual boot... win-95 was on the HD first, then... FreeBSD-3.0-19990208-STABLE was added recently Operating system - 'FreeBSD-3.0-19990208-STABLE' The problem .... Initially i hadn't installed the *ports collection* (HD space concerns) and decided i would install the ports i needed as time went on. When i first attempted to install vnc, it told me it 'couldn't find the make files.' Not even after rebooting. Also when i tried to cd to the directories where the 'make files' reside, /usr/share/mk AND /usrports/Mk the system responded "no such directory" Which now i am told has to be there or the system will NOT boot. In a last ditch effort to to install the 'vnc' port, I thot, "maybe i need something from the ports collection and started downloading it. While downloading the ports collection, a nick on irc said what i was doing shouldn't be necessary. so i aborted the download. And tried the 'make install' from /usr/ports/net/vnc yet again. Now it wants to work! Now that it seems it wants to work, the following is happening; I get the following error when i use the command 'make install' in the /usr/ports/net/vnc ports directory; /usr/bin/tar: archive EOf not on block boundary After searching the questions & Stable maillist archives, i have only found 2 hits with this error stated in them and no public posting of a response. Would you be so kind, as to help with this error? I have seen one other odd-ity / problem but have not yet been able to reproduce them as yet. E.G. while coming out of,the screen saver *blank screen* the complete OS froze on me. to the point of me having to shut the power down. <-- At this time i was logged in to tty0. Everything i typed, was like i was typing a letter (no prompt returned after pressing <enter> key or ctrl + c. <-[this only happened once] long wind... you think? ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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