From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 15 7:39:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3CB14FD4 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu ([132.170.240.30]:40313 "HELO pegasus.cc.ucf.edu" ident: "ewayte") by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu with SMTP id <1476-17259>; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:34:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:34:37 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte To: Nigel A Reading Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading Distributions/Packages from CD In-Reply-To: <000101be6ec7$e4e36e50$02000080@geffen> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Due to the large number of packages now included with the CD distribution, the packages are spread across two discs. The way I've solved this is to note the 'offending' package, exit sysinstall, pop in the other CD, and add the package. Not very efficient, but it works for me. Eric Wayte Database Administrator University of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Nigel A Reading wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:40:42 +1000 > From: Nigel A Reading > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Loading Distributions/Packages from CD > > Good evening All, > > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I am > trying to load some of the packages and distributions from CD and I am > getting the following warning message : > > Warning : XXXXXXX is a required package but was not found. > > where XXXXXXX is the package name. > > I have copy of the FreeDSB 2.2.8 CD's from Walnut Creek. > > Thanking you in advance for your help with this matter. > > Kind Regards > > Nigel > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message