Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Koji Kimura <kimura@mailhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: difficulty to install the packages via FTP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612010233.11999c-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <357B54F4.EE34F8C7@mailhost.net>
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Koji Kimura wrote: > I succeeded to install FreeBSD to my Toshiba DynaBook SS475, but have > the difficulty to install some packages via FTP. > After FTP transmission, a very sad message comes to us as "Cannot fetch > ......." in Japanese for I use Japanese mode instration. > I'm using CD-ROM of Windows NT server of my own. I configured CD-ROM as > a virtual directory. > It worked for the BSD instration, but doesn't work for fetching some > files to install the packages. NT may not be preserving the long filenamed packages on the CDROM. This isn't an easy fix -- you need to download the packages, maintianing the filename, then run pkg_add package-name.tgz to load it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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