From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 23:31:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03893 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03888 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06964; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:34:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:34:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mark Nielsen cc: freebsd Subject: Re: Thanks for the help! Another question In-Reply-To: <199611272114.QAA06600@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Mark Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for helping me out with my installation problem! You're quite welcome. Didn't we just answer this ? :) > Okay, I have FreeBSD 2.1.5 cdrom. > I choose the option to link the ports onto /usr/ports from the second > cdrom. Check. > When I get to the packages section, it gives you a list of programs > Under "www" you can install "lynx" for example, and/or "netscape2". > > "lynx" is on the first cdrom and gets installed just fine. > "netscape" is on the second cdrom under the "ports" directory. It needs > to be downloaded because the binary files are not the cdrom. That is correct. > Lynx gets installed just fine. > Netscape gets an error saying it is not on the disk. Then it moves onto the > next package without ever trying to ftp to download the files. > It also nevers asks for the second cdrom. I generally don't use sysinstall to install software packages or ports. It's easier to do it once the system is up. use 'pkg_add' to add packages, and type 'make' in the port's directory to get ports. > Or what is the correct procedure? > I am having problems getting /stand/sysinstall to download and install the > ports. It would be easier if it would take care of it all so that I wouldn't > have to manually go into /usr/ports/www/netscape and type "make". I don't think it would be productive for sysinstall to build ports. In some cases they require manual, interactive configuration and can take a long time since they build the application from scratch in may situations. Netscape is a "port" with quotes since all it does is fetch the netscape tarball and extract it (perhaps a little more). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major