From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 10:47:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13693 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from boober.lineone.net (boober-be.lineone.net [194.75.152.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13591 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:47:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurab@lineone.net) Received: from admin.cian.net (host5-171-246-20.btinternet.com [195.171.246.20]) by boober.lineone.net (8.8.5/8.8.0) with SMTP id SAA04848 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:46:33 GMT Reply-To: "Christopher Raven" From: "Christopher Raven" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Link to Ports CDROM Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:49:11 -0000 Message-ID: <01bd510c$4b127480$0300a8c0@admin.cian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Help ! when attempting (with FreeBSD 2.2.5) to use the command : - # for i in *; do > ln -s $i /usr/ports/distfiles/$i > done in order to create a symbolic link to the ports on "/cdrom" (as documented in The complete FreeBSD 2nd edition, p.96), I get as far as for i in *; do (RETURN) and the console returns the error:- for: Command not found do: Command not found I have obviously set about this incorrectly but don't know why. Can anybody enlighten me please ? My machine is not currently Interneted so I need to install from the ports CDROM. TIA Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message