From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 19:19:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA22588 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22580 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00236; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: ValTech cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 24 Aug 1996, ValTech wrote: > What's the directory layout for installing the software from the packages > distribution? I've tried using my IDE CD-ROM, downloading from the ftp > site and I just can't get anything done. The same message I receive > while attempting to install from DOS I'm receiving from your ftp site. Packages are self-contained, you should just be able to run pkg_add package-1.00.tgz and it should add it in. The packages are in /packages on the CDROM or ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/. Ports, on the other hand, require the original distribution files which are in ports/distfiles. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major