From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 08:32:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29346 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from execulink.com (root@execulink.com [207.216.160.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29340 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from empey (PC-531.on.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.48.46]) by execulink.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23566; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:32:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from Spooler by empey (Mercury/32 1.22); 4 Mar 97 11:32:18 +0500 Received: from spooler by integral.on.ca (Mercury/32 1.23); 4 Mar 97 11:32:04 +0500 From: "David Empey" Organization: Integral Communications To: " steve howe" Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:31:50 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Another question: Installing packages from a HD. Reply-to: empey@integral.on.ca CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <1F5B39083C@integral.on.ca> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With the exeception of the /usr dir, I have things set up the way you describe. FreeBSD finds the index file, and gives me a list of packages, but then can't find the packages when I try to install them. > like this (and make sure of case sensitivity) ... > /usr/packages/All/*.tgz's > /usr/packages/INDEX > / > >I'm having trouble installing the packages from a DOS partition on my > >HD. I've copied the directory structure from the fto site > >(ftp.freebsg.org), and folllowed the install instructions. The dir > >tree looks like this: > > > >/freebsd/bin > > . > > . > > /packages/archivers/ > > /audio/ > > > >etc. > > > >The index file is also in the /packages dir. The install utility > >finds the index file for the packages, but when it tries to install > >them, each package comes up not found. Is there perhaps something > >wrong in my dir tree? Any help is appreciated!