fsck gave up on me!

2007-11-03 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards, when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my desktop was missing most of the programs (Accessories, System Tools, etc.). I rebooted the machine

Unable to delete a package

2007-09-17 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, (I originally posted this on the freebsd-gnome mailing list and then realized that list was for people actively working on Gnome. I don't know if my question is a Gnome-specific issue or if it is an issue that can arise when installing programs in general.) I am currently using FreeBSD

Re: Unable to delete a package

2007-09-17 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, Peter: === Installing for libgda3-1.9.102_3 === libgda3-1.9.102_3 conflicts with installed package(s): libgda2-1.2.4_1,1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). As people have noted you can use -f to force deletion. The

Re: Problem with Gnome2 Installation

2007-08-29 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, Predrag! Thank you for responding to my question. I installed 6.2 Release, but did a minimum installation so I did not install Xorg from the release (I think). I then installed Xorg-7.2 from the ports collection. I took your advice and used the make BATCH=yes install clean

Problem with Gnome2 Installation

2007-08-27 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD6.2 onto my home computer. I chose the 'minimum installation' option. I then installed the ports tree by 'portsnap fetch', followed by 'portsnap extract', and then 'portsnap fetch upgrade'. Then I successfully installed Xorg via the ports tree. I then

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-25 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, Manoliis: I took your advice. I copied the burned iso file into a FreeBSD directory and ran md5 and the check digits did not match. I then copied my downloaded iso image from Win98 into FreeBSD and ran md5 and the digits did match. So there was nothing wrong with the iso of disc1 that

Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install