Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:57:00 +0100 From: Angelo Turetta <ATuretta@stylo.it> To: "noni4737@mstr.hgc.edu" <noni4737@mstr.hgc.edu> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Your mail to freebsd-hackers Message-ID: <c=IT%a=_%p=Regulus%l=SERVERNT960222195656AJ005B00@servernt.stylo.it>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Contact your mail administrator for information about upgrading your reader to a version that supports MIME. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB015F.EECB1C70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Well, next time better to put something on the subject line :-) >Incidentally, I could not install any packages from the FAT partition. >It seems there is a character case translation problem in locating the = files. I've seen the same problem. The menu-driven package installation program works only from the CD-ROM = (AFAIK): you should use the pkg_add program to install single packages = from wherever you want. pkg_add expects the package file to end with .tgz, otherwise it thinks = it's a normal tar archive and not passes -z to tar itself. If you copy the files on a FAT hard disk from DOS - OS/2 - WinNT - = Win95, you will get mangled names deriving from other OS's incapability = to read RockRidge ISO File System Extensions. Just give them a .tgz = extension, and you will be able to install the packages even after the = name change. Of course, mangled names are often meaningless: print the file = 00_TRANS.TBL you find in every directory on the CD to have a translation = between real names and mangled names hope the helps Angelo ----------------------------------------------------------------- Angelo Turetta mailto:aturetta@stylo.it Stylo Multimedia - Bologna - Italy http://www.stylo.it/ ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB015F.EECB1C70--
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