From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 17:59:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04093 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:59:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo25.mx.aol.com (imo25.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04086 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Unbday@aol.com) From: Unbday@aol.com Received: from Unbday@aol.com by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id IHPSa17094 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:57:03 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:57:03 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: INSTALLING PACKAGES VIA DOS PARTITION -- EASY QUESTION Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 58 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install several software packages from my main, primary DOS partition via /stand/sysinstall. The directory structure for the DOS partitition (C:) is as follows: C:/FREEBSD -- main directory for all the freebsd distributions, etc.. C:/FREEBSD/MAN, .../BIN , .../DOC, etc.. -- distribution dirs C:/FREEBSD/packages/INDEX -- The index file for the packages So, my question is, where do the .tgz 's for the packages? I have experimented with a few different locations (for example, I tried putting the X-earth package in C:\FREEBSD\packages\ASTRO, then just in C:\FREEBSD\packages, and so forth, not of which has worked -- i always get the "cannot find the package on the selected media" error. Does anybody know where they go? If you have the CD please just take a spare minute to find out, I would be very grateful. --David Alexander Loyal FreeBSD user MIT Class of 2003, BABY!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message