Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:43:49 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 package add from disk 2 Message-ID: <eib0u5$aje$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <MFBBIIMPKJNHFOKLHFPBAEDOCAAA.opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> References: <MFBBIIMPKJNHFOKLHFPBAEDOCAAA.opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org>
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opbc wrote: > Greetings to all, > I’m proud to be upgrading from 4.2 – 6.1 this morning. > After the initial install, from disk one, I want to add some stuff that I > like AND make X work, KDE and all that . > > With sysinstall, it tells me to put in disk 2 for some of the packages. It > starts to read them, then displays a great deal of “failure” to add package > error messages. > > Q: is this a common occurrence? > Is this what happens with 6.1? It's possible that CD2 is corrupted and/or burned at an incompatible speed. But if you have internet connectivity, just get them from the source: # pkg_add -r x11-fonts/webfonts will download and install them from the source, so you know you are getting the latest and greatest. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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