From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 15:06:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06803 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06770 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05311; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:05:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: installing Packages In-Reply-To: <98Jan18.155429-0500_est.330145-17895+287@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca wrote: > Well it loaded and boots quite nicely. I left out the net part until > I can find out how to properly configure it. > One questions though. How do I install the packages from a Dos > partition? I installed the ports and then went on to packages. I > selected all the packages I wanted. When it started to install it > gave me the message that it could not find them. You'll have to mount the DOS partition, copy over the file (restoring the name),then use pkg_add package.tgz to install it. To mount a DOS partition: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt For extended partitions, use slice numbers >4. Ie, for the first logical disk: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /mnt This assumes your DOS disk is on your first IDE drive and is running FAT16. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major