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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Frank A. Herda, C.M.H. wrote:

> 5.  Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Don't use sysinstall, use the 'pkg_add' command instead.

pkg_add pakcage-name.tgz

> 7.  Is there a menuing system for system administration ou there anywhere?

Not really.  pkg_manage is a menu oriented package management, and we're
working on some other goodies, like a user editor.  (at least in
sysinstall)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major