I'm following a web tutorial for installing freeBSD FreeBSD and KDE and trying to apply that to a very old quad G5. (I realise that this is potentially a dead end but I want to give it a try before consigning my computer to history.)
http://installonunixfreebsd.blogspot.com/2013/06/howtoinstallfreebsd9kde4steps.html
The install goes flawlessly until I get to the first chroot shell. I began by unsuccessfully trying
If I try sysinstall I have similar errors although not as verbose. I unsuccessfully tried changing my option values from "9.1-release" to "any".
I looked at the site ftp://ftp.freeBSD.org/ and noticed that the directory structure is:
Obviously, this is different to the requested path. How can I change the path prefix so that pkg_add and sysinstall will look in a directory that exists?
I'm reading the sysinstall section of the handbook but would greatly appreciate a "leg-up" from anyone with some experience.
Thank you much.
Phil Man
http://installonunixfreebsd.blogspot.com/2013/06/howtoinstallfreebsd9kde4steps.html
The install goes flawlessly until I get to the first chroot shell. I began by unsuccessfully trying
# pkg_add -r nano
. The error returned is:
Code:
Unable to get [url]ftp://ftp.freeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/powerpc64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/nano.tbz:[/url] File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
If I try sysinstall I have similar errors although not as verbose. I unsuccessfully tried changing my option values from "9.1-release" to "any".
I looked at the site ftp://ftp.freeBSD.org/ and noticed that the directory structure is:
Code:
pub/FreeBSD/ports/powerpc/packages-9-stable/Latest/nano.tbz
I'm reading the sysinstall section of the handbook but would greatly appreciate a "leg-up" from anyone with some experience.
Thank you much.
Phil Man