From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 27 13:33:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp28fe.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC9937B423 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu (neti.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.235.15]) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/2.2.1) with ESMTP id QAA21750; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:33:32 -0400 Received: from nancy.cisi.com (nancy.cisi.com [192.168.0.131]) by garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09521; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:30:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bobj@atlantic.net) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000827163040.00a98100@rio.atlantic.net> X-Sender: bobj@rio.atlantic.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:30:40 -0400 To: "Bill Miles" , From: Bob Johnson Subject: Re: Ports problem In-Reply-To: <000001c01059$58a4e830$3201a8c0@Hilbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:01 PM 08/05/2000 -0500, Bill Miles wrote: > > > > > > > >
Hi Guys,
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I just purchased a copy of FreeBSD 4.0 (March 2000) >and the /cdrom/ports/distfiles directory does not exist on the first >CD, nor do I seem to be able to get the make files to look at the CD-ROM without >modification.  Now what?
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Bill Miles
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Albuquerque, NM
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> Did you really send this message on August 5th? It sure has been floating around a long time. As I understand it, the ports makefiles are intended to fetch the distfiles via ftp from appropriate sites. The distfiles directory is storage space for the downloaded compressed files, and is thus empty on the CD. To install from the CD, install precompiled packages (which are what is on the CD) by running /stand/sysinstall, selecting Post Install Configuration, and then Packages (I wrote that from memory, but it should be close enough to get you there). - Bob "Questions about using FreeBSD should be sent to questions@freebsd.org" +-------------------------------------------------------- | Bob Johnson | bobj@atlantic.net +-------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message