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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:00:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        73220.604@compuserve.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packages installation problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960418210008.18923M-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604182200.AA05186@monet.jsc.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 73220.604@compuserve.com wrote:

> I am installing the FreeBSD system from a DOS partition with succes.  
> Because I can not to get my cdrom(a PCI ATAPI Mitsumi 2X cdrom) to work, 
> the only way I can install is to copy the cdrom content to a a dos 
> partition under /freebsd.  Therefore I xcopied the packages to 
> D:/freebsd/packages/   However, the sysinstall installed the system 
> but rejected the packages.  When I select the Packages from the menu, it 
> did respond with 'found index' and gave me a whole list of package 
> selections.  After I selected the package I need and return to the upper 
> level menu, then it seemed to try to install but soon after come back with 
> a message "can not find the xxxxx from the media".  I tried to copy the 
> actual package from /packages/all to the correspoding directories but 
> still got the same message. Please Help!!!

The Package installation procedure depends on the filenames being the 
normal Unix full-length ones, not the munged DOS ones.  You'll have to 
add the packages you want manually once the system is started with 
pkg_add (but that is not difficult at all).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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