From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 20:35:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA22265 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.73]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA22257 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00376; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michael Pye cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing distributions after installation In-Reply-To: <3.0b15.32.19960908210347.0068f12c@tdc.dircon.co.uk> 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 Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Michael Pye wrote: > I just installed the a pretty basic FreeBSD setup, 2.1.5 included the > minimum binaries, docs, info and manpages. > > How would I go about adding some of the extra installation distributions > such as X and the sources without doing the whole install again ? > > Do I need to mount the drive that holds the distributions on and run the > install script ? If so how do I mount my dos partition ? > > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0 /dos > > doesn't seem to do it. What error do you get? You probably removed the label for the DOS partition; that may make it more difficult (you may need to specify the exact slice). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major