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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in3.uu.net!129.115.10.31!naiad.utsa.edu!uthscsa.edu!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.7 Cdrom install of Emacs hangs Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 00:38:58 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3365A592.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> References: <3364F645.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40074 Robert Withrow wrote: > > Any idea why every attempt to install emacs on a 2.1.7 > system from the 2.1.7 CDROM using the installer hangs? There was a bug. :-) It's fixed in later releases. > A manual install using pkg_add works fine... > > Any workaround? Yeah, do a manual install using pkg_add. ;-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.