FreeBSD install

FrogLS said:
Please post the error messages you get.
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Well I did post it earlier and that is what I get to see when the screen comes to halt. It normally moves very fast, have not developed photo-reading capabilities.
 
Does you mouse work in the console? If it does copy the content of the
screen, change console, login, execute
# ee
paste, save to file (on e.g. usb stick).
 
FrogLS said:
Does you mouse work in the console? If it does copy the content of the
screen, change console, login, execute
# ee
paste, save to file (on e.g. usb stick).
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Mouse doesnt work in console, tried that already.
 
FrogLS said:
In that case use script(1)(). Execute
# script
do the portinstall, after finishing, terminate script with ctrl+c.
There will be a file "typescript" in that directory.
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Nothing works now. I boot a kernel but it wont fetch anything or show clear errors in order rectify those.

I did a typescript but I am unable to open the file.
 
FrogLS said:
Plan B:
Are you able to install the packages with error messages through pkg_add?
e.g.
# pkg_add -r pulseaudio
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I did try that but it gave new error this time

Code: 
Unable to resolve host
or Unable to connect to address or something.
 
FrogLS said:
Have you put some nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf ?
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Well I didnt. Yesterday and today I was able to connect to internet.

I checked
Code: 
ifconfig -a
and it was all normal.

Pinged
Code: 
ping -5c 192.168.1.3
and it proved the connectivity
 
Ping may prove that there is a connection to your local network but it still doesn't prove that your internet connection is ok, try connecting to FreeBSD ftp site from the command line by running this:

% ftp -a ftp.freebsd.org

Does that work?
 
FrogLS said:
Please put some nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf



I presume 192.168.1.3 is your router?
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Yeah, that is right. I have three machines and this address is for the one with BSD install. I pinged google and yahoo too.
 
kpa said:
Ping may prove that there is a connection to your local network but it still doesn't prove that your internet connection is ok, try connecting to FreeBSD ftp site from the command line by running this:

% ftp -a ftp.freebsd.org

Does that work?
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Now it says 'unable to resolve host'.
 
Edit /etc/resolv.conf with a text editor (ee for example) and put these lines to it:
Code: 
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

Clear everything else from /etc/resolv.conf and leave just those two lines in it.
(those are OpenDNS's DNS forwarders btw)

Note that dhclient will probably overwrite /etc/resolv.conf next time DHCP lease renewal happens so it would be
still a good idea to figure out why you're not getting any nameservers as part of the DHCP lease, maybe your router's DHCP server configuration needs checking.
 
OpenDNS has the habit, if the host could not be resolved, to redirect to search
results and advertising provided by Yahoo, . If you don't want to be annoyed by
that, choose the ones below or the ones provided by your ISP.

/etc/resolv.conf
Code: 
#http://www.opennicproject.org
##OpenNIC Public DNS Servers

nameserver 89.16.173.11 # UK
nameserver 217.79.186.148 # DE,NRW
 
FrogLS said:
OpenDNS has the habit, if the host could not be resolved, to redirect to search
results and advertising provided by Yahoo, . If you don't want to be annoyed by
that, choose the ones below or the ones provided by your ISP.

/etc/resolv.conf
Code: 
#http://www.opennicproject.org
##OpenNIC Public DNS Servers

nameserver 89.16.173.11 # UK
nameserver 217.79.186.148 # DE,NRW
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Ok, been there done that.

Do I need to edit
Code: 
etc/rc.conf
 
Please more informations. What happens if you try what?

By the way, in which order did you execute portsnap and
began to install kde4?

In the sequence, as you wrote earlier in this thread:

Code: 
#protsnap fetch [highlight]update[/highlight]
#portsnap extract
#cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4
#make install clean

or have you executed
# #portsnap extract
and after that
# portsnap [highlight]update[/highlight]
 
FrogLS said:
Please more informations. What happens if you try what?

By the way, in which order did you execute portsnap and
began to install kde4?

In the sequence, as you wrote earlier in this thread:

Code: 
#protsnap fetch [highlight]update[/highlight]
#portsnap extract
#cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4
#make install clean

or have you executed
# #portsnap extract
and after that
# portsnap [highlight]update[/highlight]
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Yeah, that how I did
Code: 
portsnap extract
Code: 
portsnap update

The trouble seems to be dependencies, tried to install pulseaudio (i dont like pulseaudio, plan to switch to alsa if available) by doing
Code: 
pkg_add -r pulseaudio
but it returned Perl package unavailability along with few libs or devel.

Is it possible to burn all source packages on a disk and add that as a repository of some sort. I am not sure what it is downloading and how long it will go.
 
This is going nowhere. I suggest you delete all installed packages
and begin from scratch, doing:

Code: 
#pkg_delete -a
#mkdir /usr/ports/packages
#pkg_add -rK portmaster
#rehash
#portmaster -Pb xorg
#portmaster -Pb kde4

After that you have to configure X11.
 
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