Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:47:12 -0700 From: Joey Garcia <jbgarcia@inreach.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Packages on Cdrom Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970928154712.006a26d0@inreach.com>
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It turns out that I have no cdrom support for my Hitachi cdrom under FreeBSD. Sort of a bummer when it comes with lots and lots of software on it. A whole list of packages for the ports collection. Anyways, I played with and stuff with the packages, considering that I had to do a dos partition install, I just copied some select files from the cdrom over to c:\freebsd\packages\all\* Just stuff that I was sure that I wanted. When I did the install it found that I had a packages directory and tried to look for stuff anyways, it didn't work. I think only one acutally did work. Xchomp worked. (had to get something to play with *grin*) Sort of frustrating. Any ideas of why it didn't work? Could it be that it looked for long FreeBSD file names and not Dos file names, or package names. I don't know. Give me a hint to fix this problem and rig it to work. I thought about just copying the .tgz files over to the port collection directories and stuff and trying "make install". But that didn't work either. I think that that "Makefile" is looking for .tar.gz files and the other files are in .tgz format. I think that's what stops it from actually doing anything. I get an error message saying that the file was not found on the system. Where does it initially look? How can I get it to work? I thank you for any help. Joey Garcia
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