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From: gibney@connexus.apana.org.au (John Gibney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New Installation of FreeBSD 2.1R
Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:24:45 GMT
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Howdy all...
Just completed a new installation from a DOS partition (on
first hard disk, 850MB) and have an entire 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