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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 96 10:12:05 EST
From:      jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
To:        risner@heathers.stdio.com
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re:  mtools
Message-ID:  <9601311512.AA23283@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>

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Hi,

Sorry, but I kind of have the usual chicken and egg problem here.  Since
I have no ethernet card right now, I cannot download the files into the
FreeBSD filesystem.  Since I don't have mtools, I cannot get it off of
a DOS floppy.  Hence my FreeBSD installation is isolated from the rest of
the world unless I can figure out how to use the /stand/sysinstall 
menu driven package installation utilities.  I have all the ports files
from CDROM onto a DOS floppy, I just need to know the proper paths on
the floppy to make it all work.  I will send a copy of my precise problem
to 

bugs@FreeBSD.org

and hope someone familiar with the installation process can help me.

Thanks for the help,

J. Metcalf
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 02:40:12 -0500
From: James Risner <risner@heathers.stdio.com>
Message-Id: <199601310740.CAA21118@heathers.stdio.com>
To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu
Subject: mtools
Status: R


Is it only available as a package?

Try this, download 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.1/distfiles/mtools-*

mkdir a dir on the system, /usr/ports/distfiles, and stick it in there.

take this file and stick it in a directory named /usr/ports/emulators/mtools

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this is a gzip compressed tar file.
Then 
cd /usr/ports/emulators/mtools
make
make install

then use mtools.

(I don't understand packages format files, and I can't help with them...)

Risner

let me know what this does...





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