Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: John Clark <email@john.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ports from CD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970314102229.3361H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <21589.858324872@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > pkg installation was not built for going over anything but CDROM. Just > > download the package you are interested in and run pkg_add package.tgz, or > > download the port's directory, cd into it, and type 'make' to build it and > > 'make install' to install it. > > Uh, I hate to disillusion you Doug, but the package installation tool > in sysinstall will work with any of the media types, including floppy. :) I should have made that clearer. People constantly report that sysinstall won't install packages over anything but CDROM. DOS pkg_adds obviously fail, but ftp also doesn't appear to work. Unless you fixed it..:) > pkg_add itself will work with files or URLs, so even it has two methods > of installation. I've known that for a bit. 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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