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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Richard J. Linane" <Typh0on@concentric.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.7 ports collection packages
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Richard J. Linane wrote:

> > Don't use sysinstall.  Get the system set up, fetch the packages, and use
> > 'pkg_add' to add the packages.
> 
> I do have the system up and running...however I do not understand how to
> "fetch packages" from a DOS Partitian.

You can:

1.  Use your dos/windoze side to ftp the packages from ftp.freebsd.org,
mount your DOS partition (using mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1c /mnt, assuming
your DOS disk is the first drive in the system) and copy the package to
the UNIX side.  /mnt is the root level of your C: drive.  Or, you can copy
the package to a formatted floppy, mount it using mount -t msdos /dev/fd0
/mnt and copy from /mnt.  Make sure you umount /mnt when you're done!

Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major