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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:49:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Emmert <steve@emmert.com>
To: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com>
cc: "Adam.Strohl." <thomas.strohl@valley.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Post CD-ROM Adding Of Packages
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Dave Walton wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Adam.Strohl. wrote:
> 
> > I did the original install off of the CD, and now want to add additional
> > packages (such as XFree86), but when I run /stand/sysinstall and tell 
> > it to do an add package (using the menu) it says that it can't load the 
> > index file.  I can browse the CD-Rom Drive , using mount, and it seems 
> > ok from the shell, just that the install menu doesn't see its thier I 
> > guess, please help, thanx in advance !!!!
> 
> 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.
> 
> Of course, this doesn't solve the underlying problem of accessing the 
> CD directly with sysinstall.  Anyone got a better solution?
> 
> Dave
> 
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> 
Have you guys tried /usr/sbin/pkg_manage? 

--Steve

Steve Emmert
steve@emmert.com
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