From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 10:23:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03591 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03585 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA03444; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: John Clark , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ports from CD In-Reply-To: <21589.858324872@time.cdrom.com> 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 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