Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:59:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Michael Williams <iamalsogod@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help Message-ID: <3936DCD2.8D3A3C05@3-cities.com> References: <20000601215359.52526.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Michael Williams wrote: > > Hi, > Please correct me if this is the incorrect address/method to obtain > technical support. However, if it is, I would be grateful if you could help > me with FreeBSD. I rescently installed it on my system. The problem came > when I tried to install one of the ports. I have a single cdrom distribution > of FreeBSD, and mounted it with the command: > > mount /dev/acd0c > > (I'm not exactly sure of the device name I used, but I know it mounted the > CDROM succesfuly, as I could browse it in /cdrom). I then went to > /usr/src/ports/editors/emacs. There, I typed 'make'. Unfortunately, it > spouted a ton of errors at me. It would appear that it is trying to download > the ports from an FTP connection, as opposed to using the CDROM. I have read > the BSD handbook, but I can find no reference to this problem, and have > followed all the steps as instructed. I am using FreeBSD version 4.0. You are confusing a package and a port. The package is on the CDROM but the port has to be downloaded. The package can be added by cd'ing to /cdrom/packages/editors and pkg_adding the version of emacs you find there. Kent > > Thankyou for your help. > Mike > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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