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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem installing 2.2.1
Date: 19 May 1997 14:46:21 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <337FB252.426E@ieee.org>,
Dave Burns <d.burns@ieee.org> writes:
> I an trying to install 2.2.1, and after many problems doing a full
> intial installation of everything I wanted, and having it fail every
> time, Idecided to do just an OS install. It worked fine. Then I
> started to try to install various applications such as apache web server
> w3c wed server, and many others. I had failures on all of them.
> Finally I brought out a sniffer to look at the packets that FreeBSD was
> asking for, and each time it was asking for a file that was not as it
> had spelled.
>
> Example
>
> ftp did a RETR packages/All/apache-1.2b7.tgz
> the real file is apache-1.tgz
>
> also
>
> ftp did a RETR packages/All/w3c-httpd-30A.tgz
> the real file is w3c-http.tgz
>
> This seems to be the case with all the non-base OS apps I try to
> install.
>
> Any help? My head is getting real sore, and this brick wall is not
> moving.
Looks like you loaded your packages onto a DOS filesystem - not
allowed (you're suffering from 8.3 truncation).
All the distrib files are 8.3, but the ports/packages aren't.
> Thanks
>
> Dave
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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