From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 02:39:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16018 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16012 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA09346; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:36:24 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604081006.TAA09346@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: problem with extracting from DOS To: darredge@iaccess.com.au (Darren Edgerton) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:36:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604081848.SAA05252@heimdall.iaccess.com.au> from "Darren Edgerton" at Apr 8, 96 06:48:03 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darren Edgerton stands accused of saying: > my problem is that i now want to install more of the distributions > from the CD but its not working. Don't try using sysinstall for this purpose. Mount your dos partition on /mnt and unpack things manually. # cd / # mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt # cat /mnt/freebsd/dict/dict* || tar xvzf - # umount /mnt > I was able to install the Manpages using floppies but this is painful, > i must be doing something wrong and would appreciate some help. Sysinstall really isn't suited for anything other than initial installation. > Darren Edgerton -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[