Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:23:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: risner@heathers.stdio.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mtools Message-ID: <29307.823119788@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:12:05 EST." <9601311512.AA23283@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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> Sorry, but I kind of have the usual chicken and egg problem here. Since > I have no ethernet card right now, I cannot download the files into the > FreeBSD filesystem. Since I don't have mtools, I cannot get it off of > a DOS floppy. Hence my FreeBSD installation is isolated from the rest of Why do you think that? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt Will mount a DOS floppy directly. Put the package files you're interested in on such floppies and use the pkg_add command on each one - you don't need any fancy /stand/sysinstall menu driven package installation utilities.. :-) Jordan
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