From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 19:58:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA25715 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prop (root@prop.caribnet.net [205.214.195.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25710 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 03:03:08 +0000 (GMT) From: ValTech To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 Packages MSDOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do I go about renaming all of the files to their corrrect file name? and where do I put them? On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, ValTech wrote: > > > How do i install the packages from a msdos partition? > > I've copied the packages directory from the cd to > > a similar directory, booted freebsd, mounted the dos partition, > > then loaded the sysinstall and tried to install from a dos partition. > > Uh, no. Instead, copy those packages back to your FreeBSD partition, > restoring the filename to what it was previously, then pkg_add that. > Sysinstall won't add packages after the system is installed. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >