From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 00:19:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA03902 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:19:55 -0700 (PDT) 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 AAA03893 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA27491; Wed, 15 May 1996 16:59:34 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605150729.QAA27491@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Question about the IDE CDROM support in FreeBSD (fwd) To: support@cdrom.com (Paul Hsu) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:59:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shinkai@flab.fujitsu.co.jp In-Reply-To: from "Paul Hsu" at May 13, 96 01:18:34 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Hsu stands accused of saying: > I would appreciate it if you would help me to resolve my problem. > My PC has an IDE CD-ROM. I added following statements in my config file and > rebuild a kernel. > controller wcd0 at isa? port *IO_WD2* bio irq 15 vector wdintr > > But build failed with the following messages at final stage. This is wrong. Look more closely at the example in the GENERIC config to see what you broke. > pkg_add cannot find "/msdos/packages/all/lynx-2.4.2.tgz". > (I could not use my CD-ROM drive under FreeBSD. So, I copied all > directory/files from CDROM to MSDOS partition and mount it by > mount_msdos command.) Most packages' names don't fit the stupid MSDOS name limits. You can either copy the package to a BSD filesystem and restore its proper name, or you can rename the 'lynx_2.4' file to 'lynx2_4.tgz' on the MSDOS filesystem. Either will work. > [Question 3] > What shall I do to install packages.Could'nt I install package withtout > CDROM? Packages are intended to be installed from a filesystem that doesn't have naming restrictions inherited from 1970's vintage traffic-light controllers. > shinkai@flab.fujitsu.co.jp > Yoshitake Shinkai -- ]] 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 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[