Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:47:57 -0400 From: Matthew Pope <mpope@teksavvy.com> To: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media Message-ID: <4544408D.9080703@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <200610281926.56419.lane@joeandlane.com> References: <4543E6D1.3050704@teksavvy.com> <4543F29C.2020205@teksavvy.com> <200610281926.56419.lane@joeandlane.com>
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Lane wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > Yes, that worked, thank you!! That's a heck of a lot easier thanks! Matthew
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