Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 03:43:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom / installing ports Message-ID: <14814.57922.564838.972557@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <96055560@toto.iv>
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Wyatt Banks writes: > I have my atapi cdrom defined in my kernal with 'device atapicd' > and it is mounted in fstab as '/dev/acd0a /cdrom ufs 0 0' > which works correctly, or so it appears, and I verify this by changing > to the /cdrom directory and am able to view files contained on the cdrom > but cannot install ports from it for some reason. In 'The Complete > FreeBSD' it says my cdrom must be mounted to /cdrom, which it is, and that > one port that I can build that licensing permits it to be on the cdrom > is xchat. I tried installing this from the cd by changing to > /usr/ports/irc/xchat and when I try the 'make' command, it tells me it > doesnt seem to exist on the system, as is shown in the book's example, but > then it only attempts to retrieve and build it via ftp, but this does not > work since I don't have any way of connecting it to the internet. How do > I make my computer look on the cdrom first, and is there a way to tell > which ports are only ftp retrievable? It's looking for the "distfile", which is the generic for the source distribution. Later versions of FreeBSD Releases (starting with 4.0, I believe) don't have distfiles on them any more. Greg will have to deal with the issue of the bookd being outdated. If you've got a version prior to 4.0, you'll have to install the ports collection on disk (from /stand/sysinstall), then mount the cdrom with the xchat distfile(s) on it as /cdrom. For 4.0 and later, you can see if you have a copy of the xchat package. To do that, mount each cdrom and check /cdrom/packages/All for an xchat*.tgz file (the * will be versioning information). If you find that, you can install it with pkg_add. This is a binary install, not from source. If you can't find it, or insist on a source install, you'll have to find some way to get the files it is looking for on your computer. Email, snailmail a floppy, whatever. Have whoever does it check the md5 sum on the file before sending it to you. Put the distfile where "make" says it should be, and you should be set. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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