From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 01:05:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01462 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01202 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03153; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Koji Kimura cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: difficulty to install the packages via FTP In-Reply-To: <357B54F4.EE34F8C7@mailhost.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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