From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 08:14:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29063 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29052 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA14095; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:13:30 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:13:30 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: dkite@icomnet.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <199703101752.JAA14152@websgi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 " 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