Re: 2.1.5 Packages MSDOS

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ValTech <valtech@caribnet.net>
Date
24 Aug 1996 19:58:18
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Re: 2.1.5 Packages MSDOS
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How do  I go about renaming all of the files to their corrrect file name?
and where do I put them?


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
>
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