From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 19:58:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA23144 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.corecom.net (root@[199.237.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA23139 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default (kenai08.corecom.net [199.237.130.228]) by home.corecom.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA23486 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:54:40 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970819182421.006c4ed8@pop.corecom.net> X-Sender: mikepp@pop.corecom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:24:21 -0800 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael A. Endsley" Subject: Re: directory for distributions? In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.2.32.19970818165623.006ab350@pop.corecom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:37 PM 8/18/97 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote: Well, I did that, then got the dreaded "warning". From what I have read, that is when you umount and "never go back". Is that because I have a 1.6gig HD and the geometry is different between dos/bsd? If so, guess I have the extra CD from my 2.2.1-R CD for nothing? Thanks for your help, Mike > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have searched, read, and tried about everything. When installing from a >> DOS partition, where do I copy the files to from the CD (2.2.1-R)? >> I have tried "C:\freebsd\distribution\all", "C:\freebsd\all", "C:\all", >> "C:\". I have also included the INDEX file in each scenario, but when I >> get to >> /stand/sysinstall, the program can't find the files. To install the os, I used >> the "view-setup" routine which worked great, but I can't find where to add >> any of the packages from "setup". > >For installing packages, it's easier to boot into FreeBSD, mount up your >CD or DOS slice, copy the package names over to the UNIX filesystem, >reinstating the full filename, then run 'pkg_add package-num.tgz' to >install them. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo > > >