From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 20:10:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA03039 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 20:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu [129.22.16.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03034 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 20:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fox.CES.CWRU.Edu (fox.CES.CWRU.Edu [129.22.16.17]) by alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10901 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 23:08:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Kazem Akbari Received: (from akbari@localhost) by fox.CES.CWRU.Edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA00322 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 May 1996 23:10:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199605190310.XAA00322@fox.CES.CWRU.Edu> Subject: Re: Is there anybody out there to help (3rd attempt) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 18 May 96 23:10:54 EDT In-Reply-To: <12370.832369492@palmer.demon.co.uk>; from "Gary Palmer" at May 17, 96 10:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |==> |==> 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. |==> |==> 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. |==> |==> Gary |==> -- |==> Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member |==> FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info |==> --