From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 25 17:22:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08492 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from brainstem.idcomm.com (brainstem.idcomm.com [207.40.196.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08487 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alexd@idcomm.com) Received: from ego.idcomm.com (ego.idcomm.com [207.40.196.10]) by brainstem.idcomm.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA09600 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:21:56 -0700 Received: from pony-pii-450 ([208.13.36.137]) by ego.idcomm.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13674) with SMTP id AAA169 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:55:29 -0700 From: "Alex Davidson" To: "FREEBSD-NEWBIES ML" Subject: Installing packages Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:45:40 -0700 Message-ID: <000001be0079$f4410fe0$0100a8c0@pony-pii-450> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Having installed v2.2.7 and got XFree86 to work I am confused as to how to install packages. I have about 4 tar files I am trying to install and they exist on my primary drive in c:\FreeBSD\packages - FreeBSD is on my secondary drive. When I run /stand/sysinstall and choose to install packages it says something along the lines of being unable to find /index - I don't have the CD and I suspect it is looking for a directory structure I do not have in place. Given that I am still working on getting a PPP connection to work and so have to use my Win95 connection to get to ftp.freebsd.org and download the files I want, where should I put the tar files and how do I go about installing them? Thanks, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alex Davidson E-Mail/PowWow: alexd@idcomm.com ICQ Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/264464 I-Phone: alexd@pub1.ipn.vocaltec.com Home Page: http://www.idcomm.com/personal/alexd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1024 PGP Key - http://pgp.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x62103F05 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message