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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Installation of FreeBSD 2.1R Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:48:09 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <311EE2A9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4flmqt$nlo@preeda.internex.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: John Gibney <gibney@connexus.apana.org.au> John Gibney wrote: > The directory I'm trying to install from looks like: > > Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_620 Serial number is 2A09:1ACE > Directory of c:\freebsd\packages\*.* > > ALL <DIR> 2-09-96 7:13p > APPLICAT <DIR> 2-10-96 1:01p You copied all the stuff into your DOS partition to install from, or..? The dists will allow this, since they're all carefully 8.3 named, but not the packages. The packages I recommend that you install individually, NOT with the package installer, with the pkg_add command. Just copy the *.tgz files you want (being careful to fudge the names when necessary) and run pkg_add on each one. If that's not what you're trying to do then never mind, but it looks that way at least from your posting.. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project