From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 7:55:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996F037B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA15201; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:55:38 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id HAA19631; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:55:34 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:55:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Christian Burger Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem installing ports - Newbie Alert! In-Reply-To: <39A2262E.369C7E8A@raxel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > when i run 'make' from the ports directory /usr/ports/whatever/ (i did > untar the ports.tgz file from the 1st cdrom) it says that it did not Here's your first problem. Ports will look in /usr/distfiles first for the *.tgz file. If it does not find it, it goes out on the net and FTPs it down. Use pkg_add or /stand/sysinstall to get files that are on the CDROM(s) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message