From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 8:36:15 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 A3EEE37B43F for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:12 -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 IAA21065; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:17 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA24253; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:13 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem installing ports - Newbie Alert! In-Reply-To: <20000822192608.A5809@linux.rainbow> 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 > You are incorrect. At first distfiles are located at /usr/ports/distfiles > ^^^^^ my mistake, I did mean to type that. :) > And, second, you do not have to download or copy distfile by hand (or using > sysinstall) > > Look at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk This I did not know! Then again I've never actually looked at those other disks... :) I've always used the ports collection and had a dedicated line to use them on. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message