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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        edward.ing@utoronto.ca
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No info on how to run Configuration Menu from installed BSD, and installing ports software.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960717221947.230L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31ED6043.7A09@utoronto.ca>

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Please try to keep down the cc: ing.  It's redundant, especially with
questions@freebsd.org (main support) in the list :)

On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 edward.ing@utoronto.ca wrote:

> Secondly, failing in this attempt to access the vital HMTL documents, I
> attempted to install Netscape as per your instructions in the README.TXT
> file on the CD-ROM in order to be able to access the HMTL docs on my
> BSD Docs CD. The instructions say explicitly to do the following,
> 	#cd /usr/ports/net/netscape
> 	#make all install
> 
> Netscape could not be installed as instructed. The error message read
> as follows 
> 	"netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z does not
> 	 seem to exist on the system
> 	 Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.netscape.com [... etc.]

That port is horribly out of date.  Just go through netscape's download
system and pull the BSD-i386 binary.  Then unpack in a convenient place
(/usr/X11R6 is a good place), symlink X11R6 to X11 (ln -s X11R6 X11) then
run it.  

Then you should be able to use 'open file' and get to /usr/share/doc/ and
open what you want.  Go for the table of contents (toc) first.

> and this seemed to be more productive, except that I got this error
> 
> 	"/usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
> 	 Jan 20 18:20:08 freebsd /kernel: uid 0 on /usr: out of inodes,"

What do you have on the disk?  You shouldn't get this.  Run 'df -ik' and
send back the output.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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