Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 00:12:37 -0700 From: James <james@idea-anvil.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 package install woes... :( Message-ID: <200505140012.38651.james@idea-anvil.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505120640160.20368-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505120640160.20368-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Thursday 12 May 2005 06:55 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from > home the building of "/usr/ports/x11/kde3" and I started this > thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19 > "inserting/reinserting" of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of > just trying to do what I've always done with one install disk > with FreeBSD. > > So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full > iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them > in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via > /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to > get the new "mdconfig" to mount the iso's. > > Here is the command I'm using. > > (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) > > ###################################################### > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso -u 2 > > mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 > mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block > > mount /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2 > mount: /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2: incorrect super block > > These two iso images are the exact same ones that worked fine > with the install, all MD5 sums are correct. > > ###################################################### > > So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself > how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install > from the "post install" menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me > install "disk-1" once and "disk-2" once and all my package > choices are done. > > I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS > since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this > email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask > this. > > Namaste Just mount the cd then pkg_add /mnt/cd/packages/*/pkg_name man pkg_add
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