Hi, In order to have a clean start, I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from scratch (disc1, only). I choose the installation option "All system sources, binaries and and X Window System". Everything went well. The first thing I did after the system rebooted was a portupgrade -a. Then I did a cvsup with the following supfile...
*default tag=. *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all ports-all ..as per instructions in Appendix A of the Handbook. That went well. Then I ran "cvs mysupfile". It ran for quite a while, but gave no error messages, so I guess it went well. Then I did "Xorg -configure" and everything worked okay and got into xterm. Next I went to /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 and did "make install clean". This ran for hours, occasionally prompting me for preferences, then it stopped. Here is what it said... Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp-FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/. fetch: ghostscripts-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz: local modification does not match remote => Couldn't find it - please try to retrieve this => port manually in /usr/ports/distfiles/ghostscript and try again. ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/gsfonts ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ggv ***Error Code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/gnome2 ...so, what happened? I am a newbie and don't understand what "porting manually" to retrieve this file means. Should I just start from scratch again and reinstall? I don't have any files on my disk that I have to back up. And if/when I reinstall, is it sufficient to just select the "Average User" distribution set and just add additional files, as I need them? Any advice, comments and suggestions would be very appreciated at this time. Thanks in advance, Lawrence _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"