Only a small subset of the packages fit on the CD. Emacs is not on the CD afaik. You can set multiple sources in your PKG_PATH variable (colon deliminated), so set the second one to be a mirror. See man pkg_add.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Mario <mario....@videotron.ca> wrote: > Hi list. > > I know you are all busy discussing electricity issues but maybe one of you > can take a moment to answer this. > > Browsing my new CDs for first time ever, I am a little confused and I am > seeking clarification. Is the following normal? Because when I think > about it, can really over 14,000 packages (amd64 + hppa) fit on a CD. I > am puzzled. > > marst:349$ pwd > /mnt/5.4/packages/amd64 > marst:350$ ls -l > total 25238 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 539 Aug 5 17:25 TRANS.TBL > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 125468 Jul 29 13:26 bzip2-1.0.6p0.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 674979 Jul 29 13:26 curl-7.26.0p3.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7556487 Jul 29 13:26 gettext-0.18.2p3.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2012934 Jul 29 13:26 gnupg-1.4.13p0.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 159 Aug 5 17:22 index.txt > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1521545 Jul 29 13:26 libiconv-1.14p0.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 264257 Jul 29 13:26 libidn-1.27.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 280021 Jul 29 13:26 rsync-3.0.9p3.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 165840 Jul 29 13:26 unzip-6.0p2.tgz > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 322276 Jul 29 13:26 xz-5.0.5.tgz > marst:351$ > > I guess the question is are all the binaries supposed to be on CD because > if I follow instructions as per booklet: > > % su > Password : <root password> > # mount /dev/cd0a /mnt > # /mnt/5.4/packages/amd64 > # pkg_add emacs-21.4p23.tgz > > That's not working. Well it worked when my $PKG_PATH was still set on ftp > but I suppose PKG_PATH is supposed to be set to the CD path. > > Also nowhere on CD2 I can find the soundtrack. I suppose that should be > easy. I would really need a song at the moment. > > -- > Mario
