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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.mind.net!news From: Michelle Brownsworth <michellb@efn.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem installing packages from DOS partition Date: 27 Mar 1996 21:07:18 GMT Organization: InfoStructure - Ashland, OR Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4jcam6$ecq@news.mind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: line10.fci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I'm bringing up a FreeBSD server and have installed Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1. Since my CD-ROM is an unsupported IDE, I had to XCOPY the dists to a DOS partition to do the install, which went fine--no problems. Now I want to install various packages and find myself running into a brick wall. The sysinstall utility didn't seem to want to install packages from a DOS partion (I read in the FreeBSD newsgroup there was a problem doing so), so I moved on to the pkg_add command. First, I mounted the DOS filesystem (which has all the dists from the CD, including packages and ports, in /freebsd) in /dos, then (from /dos/freebsd/packages/networki) tried pkg_add apache_0.8. The command complained bitterly, and issued me a harsh rebuke: tar: unknown option i (with a ^) tar: unknown option. Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options. Tar extract of /dos/freebsd/packages/networki/apache_0.8 failed! Unable to extract table of contents from '/dos/freebsd/packages/ networki/apache_0.8' - not a package?. Mar 12:20:08 mendacity /kernel: pid 204: pkg_add: uid 0: exited on signal 11 Segmentation fault: core dumped As the files in /dos/freebsd/packages/networki (and files in other packages directories) are links to the corresponding files in /dos/freebsd/packages/all, I tried to execute pkg_add from the /all directory, with the same result. Frankly, I am stymied... Unfortunately, the documentation for the Packages section in the FreeBSD Handbook has yet to be written, the FAQ doesn't cover what I'm trying to do, and although I've been faithfully reading the FreeBSD newsgroup, the topic hasn't been covered. I rue the day I opted for the IDE CD-ROM over the SCSI--oh, woe! I also envision installing some ports. Something tells me I'm liable to run into the same problem--just a feeling I have. I sure hope someone can point me in the right direction... Thanks in advance, \\ichelle