From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 10: 7:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CA51506F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:07:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from asmodean (pri-pt-8051.isdn.net.il) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FM200I1PQAOND@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:06:25 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 20:05:37 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: Packages and CD rom To: Phil Richmond , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <017401bf3c26$ac3bfea0$335719d4@asmodean> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 References: <000a01bf3bdb$e1aab180$dd02a8c0@phils> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've downloaded FreeBSD and about half the packages. I don't seem to be able to get the packages to work. I've placed FreeBSD on a CD which loads OK from stand/sysinstall but it does not see the packages on the CD . Once FreeBSD is installed I used the "mount /cdrom" but it says something about cd9660. I am using 3.3 release. If you've burned the CD with rockridge extenstions, you get white text saying "cd9660 with rockridge extensions" or similar. Besides, you can't have the CD mounted if you want to install packages with /stand/sysinstall. If the message is not like the one I mentioned, please say what it is. Besides, in order to install the packages, you need to make sure of three things: 1) You need to have /cdrom/packages/INDEX - if you don't have it, /stand/sysinstall can't know what the dependancies are, and what packages are available - you must have it 2) Have all the packages in /cdrom/packages/All - the packages in the subdirectories are actually just symlinks, but /stand/sysinstall gets the packages from the All directory. If you've downloaded the files in /packages/*/ then move all the packages in the subdirectories to the packages/All directory... you don't need the other directories, they are there for conveniance only. 3) You need to make sure you have all the dependancies, recursivley. For example, if you want to see what packages you need for KDE goto /cdrom/packages and type `grep "^kde-1.1.1" INDEX`. Then, in turn, for every packages you see listed do `grep "^pkgname-" INDEX`, and download all of the packages that are required. If this doesn't solve your problem, please mail in more details. -- Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message