From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 22:08:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07919 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vespucci.advicom.net (root@vespucci.advicom.net [199.170.120.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07912 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-1 (dyn-e58.advicom.net [165.113.131.58]) by vespucci.advicom.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA00995 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:07:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Envelope-Recipient: Message-ID: <33F3E3FB.453C@sysdac.com> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:07:07 -0500 From: Toby Norris Reply-To: TobyN@sysdac.com Organization: System Design and Analysis Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@freebsd.org Subject: Ports and package installation problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, 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 don't have a network connection, and I don't have a CD player that FreeBSD recognizes. Is it possible to get either the ports or the packages installed from my dos partition??? If so, please provide me with instructions. I guess I would rather install the packages since its easire, right? Also, is there a decent X windows manager available; one that at least gives scroll bars? Thank you for your support, Toby Norris