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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(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/help
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