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Date:      Sun, 25 Aug 1996 03:03:08 +0000 (GMT)
From:      ValTech <valtech@caribnet.net>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.5 Packages MSDOS
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.960825030155.7327A-100000@prop.caribnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960824192126.218C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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How do  I go about renaming all of the files to their corrrect file name?
and where do I put them?


On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, ValTech wrote:
> 
> > How do i install the packages from a msdos partition?
> > I've copied the packages directory from the cd to 
> > a similar directory, booted freebsd, mounted the dos partition,
> > then loaded the sysinstall and tried to install from a dos partition.
> 
> Uh, no.  Instead, copy those packages back to your FreeBSD partition,
> restoring the filename to what it was previously, then pkg_add that.
> Sysinstall won't add packages after the system is installed.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 




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