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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question about PORTS installation. Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 25 Oct 1996 12:12:59 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54qasb$cll@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bbc1aa$3281f780$31b9c5cd@cec.sanet.ge> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1412 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29919 "Central Elecroral Commission" <cec@access.sanet.ge> wrote: > I have downloaded FreeBSD via FTP on me DOS partition. (-> f'up to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) > And the my problem is to install PORTS from this DOS partition. > > I think that the filenames of 'tar.gz' files in 'packages/all' directory > were changed and > that is why PORTS shan't be installed. I think you've got a real problem here... you can't do this directly from a DOS partition, due to the 8+3 filename limitation. You can however copy it from the DOS partition somewhere into the Unix filesystem (e.g. under /tmp), rename the files there to their original names, and continue. Alternatively, better install ports only from within a running Unix system, bypassing the DOS filesystem entirely. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j