Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:56 -0500 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media Message-ID: <200610281926.56419.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <4543F29C.2020205@teksavvy.com> References: <4543E6D1.3050704@teksavvy.com> <4543F29C.2020205@teksavvy.com>
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:15, Matthew Pope wrote: > Addendum (clarification) to my question: > - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 > as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg > packages are attempted to be added, the download from the FTP server > completes but at the end a quick error messages flashes, and then in its > place a message is emitted: > "add of package expat-2.0.0_1 aborted, error code 1 - > Please check the debug screen for more info." > The same message is repeated for these libraries: > perl-5.8.8 > xorg-manpages-6.9.0 > xorg-documents-6.9.0 > xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 > Thanks, > Matthew > P.S. Where is the debug screen? > > Matthew Pope wrote: > > Environment: > > FreeBSD 6.1 (p10) Release > > Asus motherboard on Intel P4 > > IDE drives > > Realtek network adaptor chipset (no problems so far with that) > > ATAPI CDROM/writer > > Behind firewall. (no problems so far with that) > > > > Hello, > > I'd like to add the xorg distribution set to my existing FreeBSD > > system recently upgraded to release 6.1. > > A) When I boot from the Hard disk and attempt to load the distribution > > from the CD-ROM (Disk 0 as requested), I get: > > "unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media" > > > > B) When I boot from either the hard disk, or the CD-ROM, and try to > > source xorg from a FreeBSD FTP server, I get: > > "unable to fetch expat-2.0.0_1 from selected media" > > > > C) I've noted through trial and error that when booting from the Hard > > disk, I need to remove the "-p10" from the release name in the options > > screen or it will reject all FTP servers as not being able to source > > for my distribution. This is ephemeral and not related to my > > question, more a bug report actually. > > > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or a debug path would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Matthew, I think you could probably shortcut some of this by doing: portinstall x11/xorg after logging in as root if you get: portinstall: Command not found then do this: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade make all install rehash Then retry portinstall x11/xorg email me if that doesn't work for you lane
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