From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 02:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA16133 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 02:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16116 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 02:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA23820; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:20:43 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma023815; Thu Nov 21 12:20:13 1996 Message-ID: <32942CA7.3424@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:19:19 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JKtheOWL@aol.com CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading packages References: <961121005017_1150731729@emout08.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: > > Greetings' > > Thank you, Doug for your help in getting the system up and running. But > now... > > I am trying to get specific packages from FTP6 and install them. The > sysinstall utility does not seem to find anything (INDEX or lynx-2.FM) no > matter where I put them. (In the freebsd directory, packages, etc. -- all DOS > partition.) This is because DOS messes up with the fiole name. Take the package gziped tarball and put it on a FFS partition, and give it the original name it had. Then use (as root): pkg_add > > Do you have a straightforward suggestion for getting specific files via ftp > through my DOS client and then installing them on the FreeBSD partition? I'm > especially interested in the HTML browser to aid in reading all the > documentation provided and now on the unix partition. You may want to get Netscape. I take it that your FreeBSD machine is not on the internet? If so, you'll need to download the port tarball from the FreeBSD ftp site, and Netscape's tarball from their site. Then put it in the correct directory (look at the section about ports in the handbook) and make the port. You may also try lynx or xmosaic (which, contrary to Netscape, are both free). > > The other question is shutting down. I get error messages on boot that tell > me the last session was terminated without clean flags being set. > Suggestions? How do you shut down? The method I use is: shutdown -h now Though halt should also be O.K. However, I (and some others) have problems shutting down 2.1.5 machines with MFS and X running if they have been up for a long time. Is that your problem? > > I know this seems rudimentary, but until I can get to the manual pages and > FAQs and get read up (in the O'reilly & Assoc. books -- great suggestion, > thanks) I'm just too rusty to remember all this and really appreciate your > help. > > Thanks, John Nadav