From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 07:09:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17939 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from condor.CC.Umontreal.CA (condor.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17930 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by condor.CC.Umontreal.CA with ESMTP id KAA11025 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6 for ); Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:09:14 -0500 Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id KAA21363 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:09:45 -0500 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id KAA27704 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:09:16 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:09:16 -0500 (EST) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing packages from DOS partition = problem... 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 Hi! I just installed FreeBSD, on my little PC... after a lot of research and hard work! (I had problems with partitionning the FAT32 partition from win95...) anyway, it's done and I'm more than happy. I've got just a little problem... I can't install ANY of the packages I've downloaded via FTP. The packages are stored on a DOS primary partition (C:), but the configuration program doesn't seem to find them After correcting the errors in the filenames due to that damn 8 char limitation on DOS, it couldn't work either!!! I've tried everything! (that is: putting the package dir straight at the root of my C: drive, copying the packages directly into the /usr/ports/distfiles/ directory, etc...). The program is always telling me: "Unable to fetch from selected Media. Please (...)". When I try to "make install": same result. What the heck is happening???? Help me please! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidy visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message