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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Sergio Martinez <serg@stic.net>
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Subject: Re: Packages
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Sergio Martinez wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
> 	my question is about the packages collection on the FreeBSD 2.1.6 release
> on CD-ROM. My quad speed is not presently supported by Freebsd. I would
> like to install some of the packages without having to copy the whole dir.
> (almost 400M) since I don't have that much free space. Is there a way to
> install just selected packages? If so, which files and directories need to
> be on the DOS partition? Also, can I just use the sysinstall program to do
> it or do I have to boot from the floppy. The reason I ask is that I seem to
> be able to use sysinstall for a distribution off the floppy but not from
> the partition. I get a not available on media you have selected "message"
> even though the distribution on the DOS partition is exactly as the one on
> the floppy. All help and information would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.....
> 
> Sergio
> serg@stic.net
> 
Just copy whatever file you need. The package collection has a single tar 
file for each package. You'll want to copy it again from the DOS 
partition into a FreeBSD partition and give it back its original file 
name, and then use pkg_add to install it.

Nadav