From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 12:19:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeep.ti.com (gatekeep.ti.com [192.94.94.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7988237B424 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 12:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhuff@armadillo.itg.ti.com) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.88]) by gatekeep.ti.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f47JJDn23571 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:19:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28645 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:19:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from armadillo.itg.ti.com (armadillo.itg.ti.com [172.25.44.20]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28636 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:19:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dhuff@localhost) by armadillo.itg.ti.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f47JIsK13103; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:18:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dhuff) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:18:54 -0500 From: David Huff To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 for Dummies ? Message-ID: <20010507141854.J11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Reply-To: David Huff References: <20010507085825.B11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> <20010507113929.C777@guinness.osdn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010507113929.C777@guinness.osdn.com>; from mij@osdn.com on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:39:30AM -0400 Organization: Naming Services Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:39:30AM -0400, Jim Mock wrote: > > You're making this much more difficult than it needs to be. All you > have to do is install the X 4 port: > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 > # make install distclean OK, my understanding is that the stuff in the ports tree is a "skeleton" as it were. When I actually try to do a "make install" it pulls all the files it needs from some location (presumably a CDROM or ftp site). My only ftp access is thru a proxy server (got an ISDN connection to my company). Does this process comprehend using a proxy server/port no. to make ftp connections ? Thanks, -- _ __| |_ David Huff, Texas Instruments \_ _} Internet and Naming Services \_( david@ti.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message