From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 12:00:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26385 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:00:50 -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 MAA26380 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA18295; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:44:30 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Kimito Sakata cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <9604101832.AA21043@ares.csd.net> 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 Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Kimito Sakata wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0. I got to the point where I can install > the minimum installation. Now I'm trying to install the applications in the > PACKAGES directory but the install program says: > "GOT INDEX . . . " then says "Unable to fetch package xxxx from > selected media. No package add will be done.". > > I'm doing a DOS partition install and the packages are at: > c:\freebsd\packages\index > c:\freebsd\packages\index.txt > c:\freebsd\packages\all\xxxx where xxxx is the application. > > Am I doing something wrong??? DOS doesn't allow the long filenames necessary for the packages. If you look at them, they have a name like someport-1.0.tgz; but on the DOS filesystem it looks like someport.-1. So you'll have to add the packages manually, which isn't hard (pkg_add /path/to/package.tgz). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major