From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 11:30:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09356 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09299 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26720; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: SCS Shen Ren cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Installation problem In-Reply-To: <77D4835D5290D111B8CC00805FE6AAD507275D@bellnet-mail1.sbell.com.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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