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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:46:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey <quad2@aport2000.ru>
Subject:   RE: HELP !!!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001121134611.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001121122906.mj@isy.liu.se>

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On 21-Nov-00 Micke Josefsson wrote:
> 
> On 21-Nov-00 Alexey wrote:
>> Dear Sir.
>> I have encountered some problems installing and running FreeBSD 4.1.1. Here
>> is
>> my system configuration: ABIT BF6 motherboard, Celeron 400 MHz, 32 Mb SDRAM,
>> Voodoo Banshee, PCI Winmodem, SB16 and IDE Disks. During the first
>> inslallation phase (two floppies -> menu -> full screen kernel config) there
>> were 8 errors in "Network" section: 8 ethernet adapters were marked with
>> CONF.
>> So I disabled them all and installed FreeBSD. Then during the boot process it
>> hang on sendmail init. So I had to dasable sendmail by putting NO in
>> rc.conf's
>> sendmail_enable section. So the boot process in now clear. But when I tried
>> to
>> install Midnight Commander port it hang on ifconf checking. What am I to do?
> 
> If you actually are installing a *port* then it expects the source code in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/, if it's not there it will try and fetch it from the net
> which must of course check if the NIC is there.

After reading the handbook I must correct myself rather severly. It will
apparently first look into /cdrom and if not found there then go on to the net.
Sorry about that. With your CD mounted as /cdrom you should be able to make
ports.

/Micke again


> Either install midc as a package via /stand/sysinstall from CDROM, or get the
> source tarball of midnight commander (it's a *.tgz name) from ftp.freebsd.org,
> put it in the distfiles-dir then cd to the proper directory in /usr/ports...
> and
> do a make install.  
> 
> The second method is more cumbersome and, should there be a) dependencies that
> the build of midc relies on, you will have to get them too, or it won't 'make
> install' properly (it will say so though) or b) version discrepancies between
> what the skeleton in /usr/ports expects and the actual *.tgz file in
> distfiles/
> then the make will also fail, in which case you probably will have to update
> your ports tree.
> 
> Stick to packages unless you have a very good reson not to.
> 
> /Micke
> 
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