From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 22: 5:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (slwag2p21.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1A815E1E for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 22:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA61288; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:05:25 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:05:24 +1000 From: Jim Mock 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> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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