Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread R Skinner
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the

Installation difficulties

2011-12-10 Thread Jeffry Killen
Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version installer, which it did on an Intel 64 bit