From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 07:12:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C8416A4CE for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 07:12:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jail.idea-anvil.net (idea-anvil.net [63.226.12.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7879B43D6A for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 07:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@idea-anvil.net) Received: from idea-anvil.net (vaio [10.0.0.99]) by jail.idea-anvil.net (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j4E7CfnU087313 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:12:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from james@idea-anvil.net) From: James To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 00:12:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505140012.38651.james@idea-anvil.net> Subject: Re: 5.4 package install woes... :( X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:12:44 -0000 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