Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:30:40 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <bobj@atlantic.net> To: "Bill Miles" <wmiles@email.uophx.edu>, <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports problem Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000827163040.00a98100@rio.atlantic.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c01059$58a4e830$3201a8c0@Hilbert>
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At 11:01 PM 08/05/2000 -0500, Bill Miles wrote: ><x-html><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Guys,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just purchased a copy of FreeBSD 4.0 (March 2000) >and the /cdrom/ports/<EM>distfiles </EM>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?</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill Miles</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Albuquerque, NM</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A >href="mailto:wmiles@grqsystems.com">wmiles@grqsystems.com</A></FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ></x-html> 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
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