From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 21:19:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02311 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02296 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA09113; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:19:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <321FD45D.98E@ime.net> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:19:41 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ValTech CC: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 Packages MSDOS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ValTech wrote: > > How do I go about renaming all of the files to their corrrect file name? > and where do I put them? You can't access your CD from FreeBSD?? So copy them to a temporary dir on a Dos or FreeBSD drive as: filename.tgz cd to the directory that filename.tgz is in and run: pkg_add filename.tgz Heck you can copy them to a dos floppy, mount that floppy (as dos) under FreeBSD and run pkg_add on that floppy and it'll work! AFAIK The original name is not needed. it just needs a .tgz extension. > > 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 > > > > -- -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848