Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:13:30 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: dkite@icomnet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970310181109.14085A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199703101752.JAA14152@websgi>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Doug Kite wrote: > The machine I am trying to install FreeBSD on does not have a cd-rom > drive, so I am trying to install via FTP from my local NT server. The > main installation went fine, but I cannot get the packages to > install. The error message is "Unable to fetch package from selected > media. No package add will be done." I think it is a path thing. The > NT server is set up with an alias named "2.1.5-RELEASE" that points > to the root of the cd-rom drive. I have also tried with the alias > pointing to the packages directory, etc. If you can boot your FreeBSD system use pkg_add to add packages and not sysinstall. Simply copy the .tgz file for your package of choice to your FreeBSD machine, and then do "pkg_add <filename>" as root. See man pkg_add > > What is the directory structure supposed to look like for ftp? If it > found the bin directory ok, why can't it find the packages directory? > Should this installation method be able to work? > > TIA, > Doug > > __________________________________________________ > Doug Kite email: dkite@icomnet.com > Network Administrator phone: 919-559-6442 > Lenoir County MIS fax: 919-523-0371 > Nadav
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