Re: Difficulty installing 8.2 stable.

2011-04-09 Thread lottamiata
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

Difficulty installing 8.2 stable.

2011-04-08 Thread lottamiata
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 sysi

Re: Difficulty installing 8.2 stable.

2011-04-08 Thread lottamiata
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