From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 21:56:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29601 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29595 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA06784; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:59:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:59:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: michael van doren cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: directory structure replication for DOS partition install? In-Reply-To: <199611290058.KAA23610@orex.oe.net.au> 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 Fri, 29 Nov 1996, michael van doren wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD from a DOS partition, i've FTP'd the bin and > floppies directory and placed them under c:\freebsd. I want a fair > selection of programs to get started with. I've downloaded the entire > packages2.1.5 directory structure and added it to > c:\freebsd\packages\........ Is this right. The installation procedure > can't find the packages, it does find the index file however. Should i be > using packages or ports and what directory structure should I put in place. > (i've read the install.txt and other files) YOu can't install the packages in sysinstall from a DOS partition. Sysinstall depends on the filenames being correct, which they aren't if you try to cram the long filenamed packages into the FAT filename conventions. Instead, install the system, then mount the DOS partition and copy over the package to the FreeBSD partition, restoring the name. Then run 'pkg_add package.tgz' replacing package.tgz with the proper name to install it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major