From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 06:56:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA28472 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 06:56:49 -0700 Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (firewall-user@uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA28466 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 06:56:47 -0700 Received: from westhub ([148.156.21.6]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA20611 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 07:56:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: by westhub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.950111) Message-Id: Date: 6 Oct 1995 08:02:12 -0600 From: "Owen Newnan" Subject: Packages and IDE CDROM To: "questions about FreeBSD" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 GM Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Subject: Time:7:44 AM OFFICE MEMO Packages and IDE CDROM Date:10/6/95 My CDROM is IDE so I can't mount it, and I don't have access to the internet from FreeBSD as yet. I copy over the packages to /usr/ports/distfiles by way of DOS, but when I try make names are not as expected, e.g., aXe-1.2.tar.Z is axe1.2. I rename to the expected and make then reports an invalid checksum. I tried to tead the readme in pckages but didnt' see it there. Any suggestions?