From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 15:55:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19376 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:55:35 -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 PAA19323 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:55:26 -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 PAA24974; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing packages from DOS partition = problem... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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