From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 11:20:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02269 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02259 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00732; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:21:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:21:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Babak Sehari cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to get tcsh and Emacs In-Reply-To: <9607100152.AA17748@eng3.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Babak Sehari wrote: > I have an unsupported CDROM. I already installed FreeBSD on my > compuer. Now I would like to get the tcsh and emacs added to it. > I printed and red the handbook, but it does not say anything about > how to install these packages with an unsupported CDROM. > I copied the tcsh port and tcsh_6.06 from the disk to my hard drive, > Then I mounted the Dos drive and can read it from Unix fine. > Also, I get masages like: > > lndir not found lndir is part of xwindows, you may not have it. Your pkg_add problems stem from the DOS filename limitations. You need to copy over the archive to the freebsd partition and restore the proper filename (ususally in program-1.2.3.tgz format) then pkg_add that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major