Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:05:24 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install ports from .tgz on disk?? Message-ID: <19990507150524.A61232@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <v0313030db357e409754d@[209.150.34.161]> References: <v0313030db357e409754d@[209.150.34.161]>
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On Fri, 07 May 1999 at 00:54:36 -0400, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > I'm just installed 3.1-STABLE on a 133 Pentium with 64M/RAM and no > cd. > > I've been going around in circle trying to install ports. I don't > have internet software set up for FreeBSD yet. When I go into a > directory for a ported application, and type "make install" it > tries to ftp a site it can't get to because it's not online. > > Is there anyway I can use ports with tarballs I already have saved > to my primary DOS partion?? A few ways should work.. 1) mount the dos partition and move the tarballs from your dos partition to /usr/ports/distfiles (since that's where the ports look for them) 2) mount your dos partition, and symlink the directory with the tarballs to /usr/ports/distfiles I don't know for sure if method 2 will work or not because I haven't ever tried it, but it might. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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