From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 20:59:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA28685 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28679 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA20129; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:00:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: 73220.604@compuserve.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages installation problem In-Reply-To: <199604182200.AA05186@monet.jsc.nasa.gov> 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 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