[copycon]

I am doing a net install of FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE some of the port installs say they aborted with error code -1 see the debug screen for more info. How do I get to the debug screen.

[copycon]

I would still like to know the answer to my question however it is not urgent as I got a little overzealous with the ports colection and filled the the 6gig hard drive up and was still trying to install more so I had to start over.

[sether]

Wha? What method are you using to install ports, and what ports are failing?

[copycon]

Here is a list of what failed up until the drive was filled and I strart getting the can't write to drive media full message.

Add of package linux_base-7.1-7 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Load of dependent package linux_base-7.1-7 failed
Add of package flashplugin-0.4.3 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Add of package bash-3.0.5 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Add of package linux-arts-1.0.3_2 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Add of package samba-3.0.7,1 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Load of dependent package samba-3.0.7,1 failed
Add of package lesstif-0.93.94 aborted error code 1 for more information see debug screen
Load of dependent package lesstif-0.93.94 failed

Ports installed correctly inbetween these failures and after the last failure up untill I started getting the disk full errors. I was using the ports from the internet as I was doing a net install. When I redid after the disk full failures it went fine and is now up and running and I am working on configuring X. I however only installed one prot and I believe it add 3 dependencies and that was mutt.

[sether]

Well those are packages that are failing, not ports. To install a port

cd /usr/ports/path_to_port/
make install clean

the "clean" part (make clean) should clean out source files and save some disk space. You can also delete distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles to save space.

[copycon]

when the install asked if I would like to look at the availible ports to install that is were these were selected from.

[sether]

Oh, I don't usually install ports/packages through sysinstall. It's better to just cvsup your ports tree and install ports after you've got the base system up and running.

[copycon]

OK but what about that debug screen where is it?

[sether]

This explains everything about the debug screen and all of the problems you're having. Again, they advise adding packages and installing ports through methods other than sysinstall:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ly/054120.html