From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 26 06:37:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17197 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17192 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA02605; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:33:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000001be0079$f4410fe0$0100a8c0@pony-pii-450> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:33:12 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Alex Davidson Subject: RE: Installing packages Cc: FREEBSD-NEWBIES ML Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Oct-98 Alex Davidson wrote: > Having installed v2.2.7 and got XFree86 to work I am confused as to how to > install packages. I have about 4 tar files I am trying to install and they > exist on my primary drive in c:\FreeBSD\packages - FreeBSD is on my > secondary drive. > When I run /stand/sysinstall and choose to install packages it says > something along the lines of being unable to find /index - I don't have the > CD and I suspect it is looking for a directory structure I do not have in > place. > Given that I am still working on getting a PPP connection to work and so > have to use my Win95 connection to get to ftp.freebsd.org and download the > files I want, where should I put the tar files and how do I go about > installing them? I assume you mean DOS is on the first IDE controller on your system. Mount your DOS drive: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt (or whatever mount point you care to use) Then use pkg_add: pkg_add /mnt/FreeBSD/packages/ -- Conrad Sabatier The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message