From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 0:35:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC4237B5D8 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00437 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:35:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdACd432; Sun Mar 19 18:35:37 2000 Message-ID: <004601bf917e$26ac34f0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: Adding packages with sysinstall Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:35:54 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd appreciate comments on using "/stand/sysinstall" to add packages from floppies. I tried making floppies with a similar format to the CD (ie putting the file I want to add in an "All" directory, & put that and the "index" file inside a "packages" directory) but when I tell sysinstall to look at the floppy I get an error message to the effect that the file I specified can't be found. I know the file is OK since I can open & check it, so what needs to be done in order to use sysinstall to read the floppy directly ?? The only mention of this stuff I found in the mailing list archives suggests copying the file to hard drive and pointing sysinstall at "local" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message