About ports dist

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Jan 7 11:49:25 PST 2005


On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:46:01AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:36:59PM -0600, Martin Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi..
> > 
> > I have 2 very quick questions/comment about installation from the FreeBSD CDs, and X-window:
> > 
> 
> > When I try to install the X.org distribution, it sends an error
> > message that says it cannot find the packages/INDEX on the specified
> > media. I checked on the CD 2, and there it is, the full ports
> > collection, but the index file is named INDEX-5 instead of INDEX, so
> > I think it might be the problem.
> 
> Looks like you're trying to install packages, not ports.  You forgot
> to mention which ISO image you used (some don't have packages, and
> there are only a handful of packages on the disc 1 image).  You also
> forgot to mention which version of FreeBSD you're using.
> 
> Kris
> 
> P.S. Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be easily read.

P.P.S. Your clock is wrong.

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