Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael A. Endsley" <me@corecom.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: directory for distributions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970818213614.2488H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970818165623.006ab350@pop.corecom.net>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have searched, read, and tried about everything. When installing from a > DOS partition, where do I copy the files to from the CD (2.2.1-R)? > I have tried "C:\freebsd\distribution\all", "C:\freebsd\all", "C:\all", > "C:\". I have also included the INDEX file in each scenario, but when I > get to > /stand/sysinstall, the program can't find the files. To install the os, I used > the "view-setup" routine which worked great, but I can't find where to add > any of the packages from "setup". For installing packages, it's easier to boot into FreeBSD, mount up your CD or DOS slice, copy the package names over to the UNIX filesystem, reinstating the full filename, then run 'pkg_add package-num.tgz' to install them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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