FTP sites compat6x-i386

[Hassink,Karel]

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org] 
Verzonden: dinsdag 12 mei 2015 15:30
Aan: Hassink,Karel
CC: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
Onderwerp: Re: FTP sites compat6x-i386

"Hassink,Karel" <k.hassink at brandweertwente.nl> writes:

> At our company we have a virtual machine with FreeBSD 7.1 x86 
> installed. I tried to install VMware tools on the machine but it asks 
> for a compat6x-i386 module to be installed first.
>
> I used the "pkg_add -r compat6x-i386" command to install the module 
> but the module is not on the ftp location specified 
> (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/compat6x-i386.tbz).

That release passed its end-of-life some years back, but that package set is archived at:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/