Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 04:01:10 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tnadeau@lucidvision.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 Ports Installation Woes Message-ID: <s77edca9.029@usgs.gov>
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If you want to install ports from the cdrom. Put your ports cdrom in the drive and boot the machine After the box comes up login and but do not mount the cdrom. Now try installing the port again. This works for me. >>> "Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@lucidvision.com> 7/1/99 4:31:00 AM >>> =09 Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 3.1 onto a fresh system for the first time and am experiencing some problems=20 relating to the installation of *any* of the ports. In=20 the past, to get a port installed from one of my CDs, I=20 changed directories into /usr/ports/<subdir>/<package>=20 and typed 'make install'. However, when I do this now, I get the following errors: >> tcsh-6.08.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system >> Attempting to fetch from ftp:://... fetch: ftp.astron.com: host name looku pfailure ... >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again *** Error Code 1 Any ideas? Is this a bug that I just haven't read about? Thank you, --Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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