From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 21:56:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BB2106566B for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:56:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ajpalik@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234308FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so2141696pvg.13 for ; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xXnbQBbnMN1zoztHzi5qwg3blVpxl0mUUCQXNHQt6ag=; b=YTaIxOQxJTVI/4VmSgLfxchtMLzTa7yabwddqnMShmZH6Cy3GNUjaMJ8aj5M6LpuFA whgSVuMsJnOU8tE3mGJWzL7ORpmCaEvXqjlLk99LOY53P2vOJBbk7PM70gGuABMY45Eb QXj4qgWCyNSBd0d1XBt48R4rGifqpQC3hdh5w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=qaVq/lDD6SLD/4WHQWsx6CVAPgSgzTDUf6jxzIM9E6nxqUliuNWiaILKkPjHaGZBeC xFkwIRKUkhjEYhqugCdEzjPqtvFMKsGTmTbLhtYGfb66m9RsJePGjVqe1e+46DFMYt1C 405m5hJGy11TxkfRUeEPzxKoXofq122h0DNEg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.196.20 with SMTP id t20mr1550202wff.42.1302386206580; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Sender: ajpalik@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.46.6 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:56:46 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: pFLiSTZk7cGI0bgRp0CizNXCl5Y Message-ID: From: lottamiata@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:45:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Difficulty installing 8.2 stable. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:56:47 -0000 Another addendum: I used the sysinstall debugger on tty1 to determine that my tarball files were not unzipped during the ISO image extraction from the .bz file. Does anyone know how I can both extract the ISO image and uncompress the tarballs without destroying the image? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM, wrote: > Addendum: During the installation, I did get error messages that indicated > certain files were not being found, however I did use the complete DVD ISO > image, which I believe should have included everything and, to make sure, I > selected every package for installation. Also, the reference to Windows was > for the other machine (an older Toshiba using Vista, not 7) on which I had > burned the image disk (I completely eliminated the Windows 7 partition on > the newer machine prior to installation). > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, wrote: > >> To All: >> >> I installed 8.0 last year with no trouble at all. However, this year, I >> put it on a new machine (Toshiba laptop A505-S6981 running Windows 7) but I >> can't seem to get any of the port packages to install. This time I used a >> DVD ISO image, rather than a CD-ROM as before. It seems like sysinstall >> can't find necessary dependencies, although it does appear to have loaded >> the packages (e.g., X11) into the proper directories. Any idea what is >> going on? >> >> Thanks. >> > > >