Folks, Just FYI-ish, yesterday I made a 7.2-RC2 bootonly CD and successfully installed it on an i386. There was one weirdness with the "www" packages menu where it wouldn't display the package name properly. It looked like some odd form of line wrapping that started at the right-most column and then was off-by a line such that it (maybe?) overwrote itself on the next line. It looked OK if you scrolled all the way to the bottom and then scrolled back up. Also, I banged my head against problems installing emacs (aborted with error -1), until I finally realized that xemacs-21.4 was already installed. I think there was some form of conflict (?) that prevented two versions from being installed. Seemed odd to me in any event, and not very evident why the (package) install was being rejected. Thanks! jdl
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:55 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:> Also, I banged my head against problems installing emacs > (aborted with error -1), until I finally realized that > xemacs-21.4 was already installed. I think there was some > form of conflict (?) that prevented two versions from > being installed. Seemed odd to me in any event, and not > very evident why the (package) install was being rejected.This basic issue (package conflicts) has been becoming more and more of a problem. It's not likely we can do anything about it this time around but we'll think a bit more about what to include on the media going forwards. I also found Gnome2 and KDE4 are mutually exclusive due to package conflicts, you need to select one or the other. Just so you know - if there are issues with installing things and errors pop up you can often quickly find what the cause of the error was by pressing Alt-F2. You can get back to the primary screen with Alt-F1. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090430/e32c94c5/attachment.pgp