Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:21:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Babak Sehari <sehari@iastate.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to get tcsh and Emacs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960710111912.668G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9607100152.AA17748@eng3.iastate.edu>
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On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Babak Sehari wrote: > I have an unsupported CDROM. I already installed FreeBSD on my > compuer. Now I would like to get the tcsh and emacs added to it. > I printed and red the handbook, but it does not say anything about > how to install these packages with an unsupported CDROM. > I copied the tcsh port and tcsh_6.06 from the disk to my hard drive, > Then I mounted the Dos drive and can read it from Unix fine. > Also, I get masages like: > > lndir not found lndir is part of xwindows, you may not have it. Your pkg_add problems stem from the DOS filename limitations. You need to copy over the archive to the freebsd partition and restore the proper filename (ususally in program-1.2.3.tgz format) then pkg_add that. 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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