Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: SCS Shen Ren <ShenRen@sbell.com.cn> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407112728.26547c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <77D4835D5290D111B8CC00805FE6AAD507275D@bellnet-mail1.sbell.com.cn>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, SCS Shen Ren wrote: > I'm upgrading a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system thesedays . The current > system is minimon installed, without X window and enough packages .I > want those features available. So first I got the packages and Xfree86, and > copied them to a DOS patition, You can't install packages from a DOS partition because the filename is munged. You can mount the dos filesystem, copy the package to the FreeBSD slice restoring the name, then run `pkg_add package.tgz' to install it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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