Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joey Garcia <jbgarcia@inreach.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages on Cdrom Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002224031.26112P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970928154712.006a26d0@inreach.com>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Joey Garcia wrote: > > It turns out that I have no cdrom support for my Hitachi cdrom under > FreeBSD. Sort of a bummer when it comes with lots and lots of software on > it. A whole list of packages for the ports collection. Anyways, I played > with and stuff with the packages, considering that I had to do a dos > partition install, I just copied some select files from the cdrom over to > c:\freebsd\packages\all\* Just stuff that I was sure that I wanted. When > I did the install it found that I had a packages directory and tried to > look for stuff anyways, it didn't work. I think only one acutally did > work. Xchomp worked. (had to get something to play with *grin*) Sort of > frustrating. Any ideas of why it didn't work? Could it be that it looked > for long FreeBSD file names and not Dos file names, or package names. I > don't know. Give me a hint to fix this problem and rig it to work. You have to reconstitute the filenames, particularly restoring the .tgz extension. Then pkg_add will work properly. > I thought about just copying the .tgz files over to the port collection > directories and stuff and trying "make install". But that didn't work > either. I think that that "Makefile" is looking for .tar.gz files and the > other files are in .tgz format. I think that's what stops it from actually > doing anything. I get an error message saying that the file was not found > on the system. Where does it initially look? How can I get it to work? The ports should work fine, since they fetch their distfiles from the main site if they aren't in /usr/ports/distfiles. 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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