From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 14:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe-e.std.com [192.74.137.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A33914C46 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (STD1.2/BZS-8-1.0) id RAA21198; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA01941; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:14:55 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: #make problem References: <02e501bed3a8$703a7bc0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Jul 1999 17:14:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez"'s message of Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:39:59 -0500 Message-Id: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Alejandro Ramirez" writes: > Hi, > > You will have to install the ports tree, dont worry about disk space, it > will only create a directory structure, with the names of the programs that > you can install, and also it will grab the patches for the programs to work > well on FreeBSD, and then, you will have to mount your cdroom (the one with > the tar files in it) in /usr/ports/distfiles, and then: It's still a lot of space (over 40MB), and a heck of a lot of inodes, so this advice won't work for everyone. You can get just the /usr/ports/Mk directory off of the FTP site, and that should solve this particular problem. > From: James Gill > > ...and where can i find a port of the fortune program? :) It's not a port; it's part of the "games" distribution. Install that, and you'll find it in /usr/games/fortune. The games distribution is about 2MB, and fortune's databases probably make up most of that. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message