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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:30:40 -0400
From:      Bob Johnson <bobj@atlantic.net>
To:        "Bill Miles" <wmiles@email.uophx.edu>, <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ports problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000827163040.00a98100@rio.atlantic.net>
In-Reply-To: <000001c01059$58a4e830$3201a8c0@Hilbert>

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At 11:01 PM 08/05/2000 -0500, Bill Miles wrote:
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Guys,</FONT></DIV>
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just purchased a copy of FreeBSD 4.0 (March
2000) 
>and the /cdrom/ports/<EM>distfiles </EM>directory does not exist on the
first 
>CD, nor do I seem to be able to get the make files to look at the CD-ROM
without 
>modification.&nbsp; Now what?</FONT></DIV>
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Did you really send this message on August 5th?  It sure has been 
floating around a long time.

As I understand it, the ports makefiles are intended to fetch the 
distfiles via ftp from appropriate sites.  The distfiles directory 
is storage space for the downloaded compressed files, and is thus 
empty on the CD.

To install from the CD, install precompiled packages (which are 
what is on the CD) by running /stand/sysinstall, selecting Post 
Install Configuration, and then Packages (I wrote that from memory, 
but it should be close enough to get you there).

- Bob

"Questions about using FreeBSD should be sent to questions@freebsd.org"

   

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