Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:32:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Ian McArdle <cool@m130.aone.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960607212923.445D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31B82746.43E9@m130.aone.net.au>
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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Ian McArdle wrote: > Hi, I bought the CDROM version of Freebsd 2.1. I have an incompatible > CDROM drive so Freebsd will not install onto my system. I used the dos > version and got Freebsd up and running, however due to the incompatible > drive, the applications will not install. I have put them all the > hardrive with the bin etc and when i install it just says cant find the > unix version of this file. I assume you are referring to the packages and ports. You will need to copy them over to your FreeBSD partition and restore their full names. For example, if you copied the tcsh package onto your DOS partition as TCSH.TGZ or something, you will need to copy it to the FreeBSD filesystem to tcsh-6.03.tgz or whatever the original name was. Then you may use the 'pkg_add' command to install the application. pkg_add tcsh-6.03.tgz Does that make sense? What type of CD do you have? We may be able to coax it into working if it's IDE/ATAPI. 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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