From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 08:05:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA01832 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01792 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id IAA38323; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:04:55 -0800 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:04:55 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: "Adam.Strohl." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Post CD-ROM Adding Of Packages In-Reply-To: <199601300247.VAA23857@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Adam.Strohl. wrote: > I did the original install off of the CD, and now want to add additional > packages (such as XFree86), but when I run /stand/sysinstall and tell > it to do an add package (using the menu) it says that it can't load the > index file. I can browse the CD-Rom Drive , using mount, and it seems > ok from the shell, just that the install menu doesn't see its thier I > guess, please help, thanx in advance !!!! I've run into the same problem: After installation, sysinstall can't find the packages when you specify CD-ROM as the install media. The work-around I've found is to mount the CD (in /cdrom, for me) and then tell sysinstall to install the packages from an existing file system, giving it /cdrom as the path. That done, it works fine. Of course, this doesn't solve the underlying problem of accessing the CD directly with sysinstall. Anyone got a better solution? Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================