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, <[email protected]> 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, <[email protected]> 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. >> > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
