From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 18:50:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA04409 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04342 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA17087; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:31:18 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601310301.NAA17087@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Post CD-ROM Adding Of Packages To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:31:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: thomas.strohl@valley.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dave Walton" at Jan 30, 96 08:04:55 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dave Walton stands accused of saying: > > I've run into the same problem: After installation, sysinstall can't > find the packages when you specify CD-ROM as the install media. The > work-around I've found is to mount the CD (in /cdrom, for me) and then > tell sysinstall to install the packages from an existing file system, > giving it /cdrom as the path. That done, it works fine. Use pkg_manage directly, rather than sysinstall. > David Walton Programmer -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[