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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      ai596@freenet.carleton.ca (Hoang Q Tran)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: install port collection
Message-ID:  <199710131627.MAA28899@freenet3.carleton.ca.carleton.ca>

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Thanks for the suggestion. I got it to install ok
by replacing with th Live File System. 

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>On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hoang Q Tran wrote:
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>> I want to install bash-2.0.tgz from the FreeBSD 2.2.2
>> port collection. I've followed the "Compiling ports from CDROM"
>> in the handbook and still get the error: >> bash-2.0.tgz doesn't
>> seem to exist on this system. Attempting to fetch ... <<
>> I checked the CDROM for the file "distfiles" supposedly under
>> /cdrom/ports/ and *it's not there*.
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>Do you have a net connection?  If you do, then let the port do it's thing
>and grab the distribution file from the master site.
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>Also, are the distfiles mounted/copied under /usr/ports/distfiles?
>bash-2.0.tar.gz is certainly on the 2.2.2 CDROM in ports/distfiles.
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>gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,94>pwd
>/cdrom/ports/distfiles
>gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,95>ls ba*
>bash-1.14.7.tar.gz      bash-2.0.tar.gz         bash-doc-2.0.tar.gz
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>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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