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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:20:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Blue Temp <cbeverly@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: dos partitions
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Blue Temp wrote:

>   I am wondering if there is anyway to install ports from a dos
> partiton. For instance I am having problems with getting the ppp program
> to run. Put have perl background so I have been pulling my hair out to
> get perl into the D: partition that is allocated for freebsd. I can only
> get online from my windows partition so I can't get the programs into
> the unix area of the HD..

Yes.  Download the distribution file(s) and place them in
/usr/ports/distfiles; the port will pick them up automatically.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major