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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:38:56 +0100
From:      Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
To:        Mark Hepp <tarokun@earthlink.net>
Cc:        BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fw: How do I add blackbox2?
Message-ID:  <JtU2o8AQVxw8Ew7D@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <001f01c1e96a$10631a60$6504a8c0@ATHENA>
References:  <001f01c1e96a$10631a60$6504a8c0@ATHENA>

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Someone, quite probably Mark Heap, once wrote:
>> Sorry, I meant to say - I used a win 2k machine to download the tar file.
>> Bsd is on a seperate machine (a laptop) Which has a 32bit linksys cardbus
>> 10/100 that i cannot get to connect to the Internet - pkg_add -r won't
>work
>> = no Internet.
>> So, I've got the tar file burned on to a cd - how do I mnt the cd, copy
>the
>> file over and do the install that way?
>> the ports method gives me Stop in  /usr/ports/ Error code 1- Do not
>> understand what attemp to manually fetch the port into disfiles is asking
>> me.
>> Isn't the easiest way to  get the tar file into some dir and do th
>einstall
>> from there?

Try downloading the package on your win2k box:
<URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-
4-stable/All/blackbox-0.62.1.tgz >
then copy that across to your FreeBSD laptop and then use pkg_add from
there.  Something like:

# pkg_add /path/to/blackbox.tgz

Kevin
-- 
kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk

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