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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 96 19:02:00 +1100
From:      gibney@triad.apana.org.au (John Gibney)
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   New Installation
Message-ID:  <22J4iD1w165w@triad.apana.org.au>

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Howdy all...

Just completed a new installation from a DOS partition (on
first hard disk, 850MB) and have an entier 425MB second hard
disk containing FreeBSD 2.1R.

Unix side of things seems to work Ok but I can't install any
of the packages.  The INDEX file is located Ok and the items
are all displayed in the menu but when I select an item to
install and it goes to try and pkg_add it, it comes up with
an error (exits with -1 appears on VT2).

The directory I'm trying to install from looks like:


 Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_620     Serial number is 2A09:1ACE
 Directory of  c:\freebsd\packages\*.*

ALL          <DIR>      2-09-96  7:13p 
APPLICAT     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
ARCHIVER     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
AUDIO        <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
BENCHMAR     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
CAD          <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
COMMS        <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
DATABASE     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
DEVELOPM     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
DOCUMENT     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
EDITORS      <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
EMULATIO     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
GAMES        <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
GRAPHICS     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
JAPANESE     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
LANGUAGE     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
LIBRARIE     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
MAIL         <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
MATH         <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
NETWORKI     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
NEWS         <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
PLAN9        <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
PRINTING     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
PROGRAMM     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
SECURITY     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
SHELLS       <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
SYSUTILS     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
UTILITIE     <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
X11          <DIR>      2-10-96  1:01p 
00_TRANS.TBL     1453  11-18-95  3:41a 
INDEX           57118  11-18-95  3:37a 
INDEX.TXT       56312  11-18-95  3:37a 
README            857  11-18-95  3:37a 
       115,740 bytes in 4 files and 29 dirs    163,840 bytes allocated
   212,090,880 bytes free


...and the required files are the same as in the CD-ROM,
from which I CAN'T install, as it's unsupported.

Specifically, I'm trying to install lynx, so I can read the
handbook, etc.

Any clues??

Thanks.


John

P.S.    I installed the system with DEBUG on and now there's
        all these messages on VT2 all the time.  Can they be
        removed/DEBUG turned-off somehow on startup?

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