Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:01:25 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Jonathon Orbeton" <JOrbeton@PaymentNet.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Install via FTP Message-ID: <199809302301.TAA26993@laker.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:03:56 -0700, Jonathon Orbeton wrote: >I reformatted a new floppy and it worked. I d/l everything for the >install and I thought I d/l a bunch of ports...The system runs great >however, I though it downloaded xemacs and kde and etc. during the >initial install...you know *.tgz. I though these went into the ports dir >for me to compress and install. But, now they are no where to be >found...??? I'm copying the list on this reply because other people will know if I'm wrong about any of it... I think that when you elect to "download ports" during sysinstall, all you are downloading is the skeleton directories and the Makefile. If you go to any particular port's directory and invoke make, it will look to see if the compressed file is in /usr/ports/distfiles and if not, it has a few known hosts to try. So look in /usr/ports/distfiles and see if anything is there. Then go make a simple port (one that doesn't have any other dependancies, like perhaps unzip in archivers. Then recheck /usr/ports/distfiles. Before this auto-fetch will work though, you have to configure a ppp dialup link and connect to your ISP. Check man ppp for details on setting up ppp. It will take a little while to understand. If you buy the CD-ROMS from Walnut Creek, you can install these ports without the ppp connection. Always an option... The ports are currently undergoing major rework to support ELF binaries (don't ask me what ELF stands for, it's just a newer format for executables to replace a.out format). Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809302301.TAA26993>