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"Hassink,Karel" <k.hassink@brandweertwente.nl> writes:

> At our company we have a virtual machine with FreeBSD 7.1 x86
> installed. I tried to install VMware tools on the machine but it asks
> for a compat6x-i386 module to be installed first.
>
> I used the "pkg_add -r compat6x-i386" command to install the module
> but the module is not on the ftp location specified
> (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/compat6x-i386.tbz).

That release passed its end-of-life some years back, but that package
set is archived at:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/