From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 28 15:39:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27589 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inreach.com ([205.138.224.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA27584 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbgarcia (ppp10125.la.inreach.net [206.18.112.125]) by mail.inreach.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/(InReach)) with SMTP id PAA01719 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970928154712.006a26d0@inreach.com> X-Sender: jbgarcia@inreach.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:47:12 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Joey Garcia Subject: Packages on Cdrom Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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