5.4 package install woes... :(

James james at idea-anvil.net
Sat May 14 00:12:44 PDT 2005


On Thursday 12 May 2005 06:55 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> Hello Family,
>
> Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from
> home the building of "/usr/ports/x11/kde3" and I started this
> thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19
> "inserting/reinserting" of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of
> just trying to do what I've always done with one install disk
> with FreeBSD.
>
> So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full
> iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them
> in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via
> /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages.  I cannot seem to
> get the new "mdconfig" to mount the iso's.
>
> Here is the command I'm using.
>
> (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2)
>
> ######################################################
>
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso -u 2
>
> mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1
> mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block
>
> mount /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2
> mount: /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2: incorrect super block
>
> These two iso images are the exact same ones that worked fine
> with the install, all MD5 sums are correct.
>
> ######################################################
>
> So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself
> how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install
> from the "post install" menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me
> install "disk-1" once and "disk-2" once and all my package
> choices are done.
>
> I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS
> since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this
> email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask
> this.
>
> Namaste

Just mount the cd then pkg_add /mnt/cd/packages/*/pkg_name

man pkg_add


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