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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.internex.net.au!connexus.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: gibney@connexus.apana.org.au (John Gibney) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Installation of FreeBSD 2.1R Date: 12 Feb 1996 21:15:43 GMT Organization: connexus.apana.org.au Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4foalv$h37@preeda.internex.net.au> References: <4flmqt$nlo@preeda.internex.net.au> <311EE2A9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: connexus.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : 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..? Yup... : 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. Which I did thismorning and it worked quite happily. Perhaps you could add this comment to "steps ebfore installing from DOS partition" bit in the installation notes...? ...and following from a prior post.. I thinkin it would be a good feature to add to the installer to have an optin that lists the distributions that are required for the "User", "Developer", etc. levels of installation. I manually selected the bin, info, manpages and (something I can't remember right now) and I don't know how different that is to, say, the "User" installation. Anyway, dealing with the individual packages, renamed, seems to work Ok.. Thanks a heap :) John