From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 14:28:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:28:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from riptide.wavetech.net (root@riptide.WaveTech.net [206.146.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27226 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from white@wavetech.net) Received: from cliff (pm3a-127.dynam.WaveTech.net [206.146.145.128]) by riptide.wavetech.net (8.8.7/8.8.3) with SMTP id QAA04213 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:25:24 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802222225.QAA04213@riptide.wavetech.net> X-Sender: white@mail.wavetech.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:27:44 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Roman Subject: New User to FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am sorry.. but I did not know who I could send this to... I just recieved my FreeBSD CD-Roms a few days ago and I am currently trying to get things setup. I have gone through the installation, which seemed to go pretty easily.. however there are a few things that I can not seem to do. I am trying to access the Handbook.. if I go to my /usr/share/doc directory, there is no handbook there. I have tried to reinstall the INFO and DOC distributions.. and it appears they are installing correctly. Also.. I am trying to run a few ports. I have gone in and installed them and I can see the skeleton for them. However, when I type MAKE INSTALL it tells me it cannot find the file. When I look in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory.. it is empty. So.. I then looked at the handbook on your Web Page (back in win95 now) and I read about linking the cdrom. so.. I tried to link it but it tells me that /cdrom/ports/distfiles does not exist. When I looked at the cdrom.. it is correct, there is no distfiles on the cdrom.. just one BIG file of ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanx, Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message