Date: Sat, 18 May 96 23:10:54 EDT From: Kazem Akbari <akbari@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there anybody out there to help (3rd attempt) Message-ID: <199605190310.XAA00322@fox.CES.CWRU.Edu> In-Reply-To: <12370.832369492@palmer.demon.co.uk>; from "Gary Palmer" at May 17, 96 10:44 pm
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|==> Kazem Akbari wrote in message ID
|==> <199605170502.BAA00954@fox.CES.CWRU.Edu>:
|==> > Dear Gary, thanks for your response. I believe I have installed the
|==> > FreeBSD/XFree86 completely. After installation I went to /usr/ports
|==> > directory and as it was instructed, I tried "make" and "make
|==> > print-index" both which failed as I explained before. By the way, in
|==> > the ports directory I got all the files (README, INDEX, ...) and
|==> > directories (games, cad, x11, ...), and all the files in this
|==> > directory (ports) have zero value when I try "du -s" and also all the
|==> > files in the "distfiles" directory (".gz" files) have zero values (the
|==> > same is true for /cdrom). I hope you can help me out to fix the
|==> > problem.
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|==> My guess at this point would be that you built a symlink tree from
|==> /usr/ports to the tree on the CDROM (as instructed in the manual, if I
|==> remember), but you (at the current moment) don't have the CDROM
|==> mounted, and hence the data is unavailable. If this is the case, just
|==> type (as root) `mount /cdrom' and then try again. It should fix (I
|==> think) your problem... (all the symlink tree does is create a set of
|==> pointers back onto the CDROM, it don't actually copy or contain any
|==> data from the CDROM. When the data is needed, the symlink refers the
|==> program needing the data to the CDROM to find it).
I tried "mount /cdrom" several times and the system returned:
"cd9660: /dev/wdc0c: Device not configured"
I hope this would give you a clue.
Kazem.
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|==> Gary
|==> --
|==> Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member
|==> FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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