From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 09:22:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29229 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 09:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com ([151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29224 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 09:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA06833; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:17:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (root@current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07835; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:22:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA04713; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:21:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:21:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708161621.MAA04713@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Toby Norris CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and package installation problems In-Reply-To: <61595163@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Toby Norris wrote: > I have the version 2.2.1 CD. I have copied the entire CD to my > hard disk and installed FreeBSD from a DOS partition. None of the > ports or packages will install. In fact, when I look in the packages > directory on the CD I see a bunch of tarballs with zero size. What's > going on. No where on the CD can I find any /usr/ports/distfiles > directory. When I installed FreeBSD I told it to give me everything > under the sun, but still the /usr/local/distfiles directory is empty. I'm going to make an assumption about what you're doing: You can't see your CD-ROM from FreeBSD, so you: - boot under DOS - copy the relevant packages tarballs to your DOS hard-drive - reboot under FreeBSD - mount your DOS partition (mount -r -t msdos /dev/wd /mnt) , and - copy/install the packages from the DOS partition. I used to do just that when FreeBSD couldn't recognize my CD-ROM. If that's correct, make sure you copy the packages files from the "All" subdirectory on the CD-ROM. Every other subdirectory contains a symbolic link to the corresponding file in the "All" directory--but symbolic links don't mean anything to DOS, so they're copied as zero-length files. > Also, is there a decent X windows manager available; one that at least > gives scroll bars? Scroll bars are typically a function of the application (e.g., xterm) not the window manager. To get scroll bars in an xterm, use the `-sb' and `-sl' command-line options (or their corresponding X resources). `man xterm' for more information. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.