7.0 Install problems
I tried doing a base install of FreeBSD 7.0 onto a machine that had been running 6.0.
It got most of the way through the install and then it failed on a dependency of libgl7.0.
The basic OS excluding X seems to have installed okay. It's pretty disappointing that in 2008 a normal install onto known working and relatively modern hardware fails to successfully install the window manager.
Using sysinstall to try to install Xorg (after the fact) also fails with odd dependency issues (dependent package fails to install), with the cryptic "check debug screen," which I can't since I'm at work and alt F2 only works on the system console.
I've been using FreeBSD for 10 years, and it really annoys me when the basic installation, including X11 & KDE doesn't work. I can deal with the ugly installer, but it needs to work. The Linux camp seems have pretty decisevely solved the install process, FreeBSD really needs to work on it.
I guess I'll give FreeBSD 6.3 a try and see if it installs.
Is anyone else having issues installing Xorg and/or KDE?
Stephen
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