Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing packages from DOS partition = problem... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223155433.24778a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980223095818.26910A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > Hi! > > I just installed FreeBSD, on my little PC... after a lot of research > and hard work! (I had problems with partitionning the FAT32 partition from > win95...) anyway, it's done and I'm more than happy. > I've got just a little problem... I can't install ANY of the packages I've > downloaded via FTP. The packages are stored on a DOS primary partition > (C:), but the configuration program doesn't seem to find them After > correcting the errors in the filenames due to that damn 8 char limitation > on DOS, it couldn't work either!!! I've tried everything! > (that is: > putting the package dir straight at the root of my C: drive, copying the > packages directly into the /usr/ports/distfiles/ directory, etc...). The > program is always telling me: "Unable to fetch from selected Media. Please > (...)". When I try to "make install": same result. > > What the heck is happening???? I don't nkow. Are these for packages or ports? Packages should add fine if you run `pkg_add package.tgz'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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