From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 19: 4:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE29837B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 52160 invoked by uid 100); 10 Mar 2001 03:04:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15017.39335.455753.3533@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 21:04:07 -0600 To: Daisuke Toriumi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting distfiles via CDROM In-Reply-To: <32388043@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daisuke Toriumi types: > I bought 4 set CD rom of FreeBSD4.2. > But there are no distfiles (/usr/ports/distfiles). > I would like to use java in FreeBSD and it seems necerssary to > have distfiles, and takes forever to download from site. > > I wonder distfiles are available in CDROM. Unfortunately, they've disappeared from the FreeBSD release disks, and yes, I miss them too. If you're trying to install the Sun java vm, you might check to see if you can order the distfile on CDROM from them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message