From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 3:41:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 080A915153 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 03:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 01 Jul 1999 03:41:43 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 03:41:06 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, johnbsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: ports not finding distfiles on cd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The way I get it to work is put the cd in the drive and reboot the=20 machine. Then run /stand/sysinstall (do not mount the cd) and set the = media=20 to the cdrom. Now exit sysinstall and cd to /usr/ports and try making your favorite port. It should now see the cdrom and make it correctly. You could just get it from the net though. If you find another way let me know. My linux people laugh at me when I have to do this. >>> john holland 6/30/99 6:34:48 AM >>> I've been trying to compile ports from the cdrom but even with the CDROM mounted under /cdrom, the ports in /usr/ports don't find the tarballs. If I copy them (the tarballs) to /usr/ports/distfiles then they find them but seem to ask "file to patch?" which I don't know how to answer. then the make install fails with error code 1.=20 what is the correct way to install ports from the cd? thanks,\ john holland _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message