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From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@fci.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem installing packages from DOS partition
Date: 10 Apr 1996 07:33:57 GMT
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Thanks, Jordan.  Appreciate the info.  Paul Hsu <support@cdrom.com> from 
Walnut Creek Tech Support took a slightly different tack to address the 
problem.  I used his method and it worked fine:



All the packages for the utilities are located under /packages/all
on the cdrom.  The directories /packages/{networking,editor,and etc....}
only contain symbolic links.

Create a directory on your dos partition (say c:\freebsd\pkgs),
look through the /packages/all directory on the CDROM for individual
programs you want to install (or perhaps all of them), copy them over to 
c:\freebsd\pkgs.  Make sure you also copy the file  
/packages/all/00_TRANS.TBL.  This file contains the mapping 
between 8.3 DOS filenames and long filenames.

Boot back into freeBSD, mount the dos paritions.  Make a temporary
directory (say /tmp/pkgs), and move all the package files from
/dos/freebsd/pkgs over to /tmp/pkgs.  You will need to rename
some files manually from the 8.3 format to their real long filenames.
Check 00_TRANS.TBL for the mapping.  Basically, we're transferring
the /packages directory over to the harddrive while preserving
the long filenames.

Lastly, run the program pkg_manage.  Change the installation source
directory over to /tmp/pkgs.  You should be all set at this point.
pkg_manage is a menu-driven program allowing you to install/unsinstall
the packages..

Hope this helps.

Paul
Technical Support
Walnut Creek CDROM