Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:43:02 -0500 From: "Gill" <gill@topsecret.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: installing packages Message-ID: <000901be7576$2137d350$6665650a@stumpy.topsecret.net>
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Hello. I have just recieved and installed 3.1-RELEASE from the CD I orderd from Walnut Creek a couple of weeks ago. The initial installation went smoothly as I had been running 3.0-STABLE on this machine for a few weeks but wanted to have a fresh install. On my network I have the following: 1 3Com OfficeConnect ISDN Router (10.101.101.1); 1 FreeBSD box (486, 16 MB RAM, 515 MB HDD) (10.101.101.2); 1 NT 4.0 SP4 Server (10.101.101.101); 1 NT 4.0 SP4 Workstation (10.101.101.102). All boxes run with a 255.255.0.0 netmask. My FreeBSD box does not have a CD-ROM but the NT Server does, so I wanted to use that hardware accross the network to install the OS. Without being able to remotely mount the CD, I figured the easiest was to create an FTP site on the NT server and copy everything from CD 1 except the packages folder the new FTP site. I did that and the install went marvelous. Now when i run /stand/sysinstall and want to add stuff from the packages collection i'm up against the same problem and rather than try to copy the whole packages folder from the CD to the FTP directory, I simply set the options on the FreeBSD box so that it doesn't look for a 3.1-RELEASE directory as soon as it logs into the FTP server and point the FTP site to the CD-ROM. So, to recap, now when you ftp into 10.101.101.101:2101 you get the FreeBSD 3.1 CD-ROM #1 . When running /stand/sysinstall and trying to install packages with this set-up I have no problems pulling down the index and selecting the packages I want to install, but each package always gives me the same error message, "Unable to fetch package [package-name] from selected media. No package add will be done." I realize that not all the packages are on this disc so I'll tell you that the packages I'm trying to install are Pine 4, Apache 1.3, Bind 8, Luna 1.9, and so forth....stuff that *is* on that disc. What's more, I did try to copy all of the packages folder (except the Xwin related dirs) to the hard drive and make an FTP site from there, but the result was the same (as expected). Do you have any hints of what might be going on here? I have plenty of hard drive space to dump this stuff onto so I don't think that's the problem. thanks, --gill __________________________________ James Gill III, MCSE, MCP+i, CNA Network Consultant, Cleveland, OH gill@topsecret.net 216-830-2208 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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