Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:43:12 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Tukman <tukman@acpub.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software not loading Message-ID: <199607260043.AAA13791@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <31E584B7.492B@acpub.duke.edu> from "Mark Tukman" at Jul 11, 96 06:48:23 pm
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> > I have just installed free bsd on my pc. At the end of the > installation, when given the opportunity to pick some software > packages, I end up with a message that the software can't be found. I > have an Atapi CD-Rom, so I am installing from my Dos partition. This is a problem with MSDOS's stupid restrictions on file names. The install program is looking for names like kringemaker-1.6.alpha.tar.gz which DOS has completely garbled. You can fix this by truncating them yourself into a more sensible format before installing; the trick is to have an eight-letter name followed by '.tgz', eg something like kringema.tgz for the above program.
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