From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 7:14:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (unknown [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF60E37B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdu26-61-048.nc.rr.com ([66.26.61.48]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:10:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:18:14 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <164142436331.20010207101814@nc.rr.com> To: RS Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing ports In-reply-To: <20010207150836.28250.qmail@web6202.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010207150836.28250.qmail@web6202.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, February 07, 2001, 10:08:36 AM, you wrote: R> What if im not connected to the net? See, I was wrong.... From Bill Moran >The CDROM must already be mounted ... on /cdrom. >See this page for details: >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html >If you're still having problems, you can manually copy the tarball into >the /usr/ports/distfiles directory prior to running make (as described >in the error message) > >-Bill Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com R> --- Neill Robins wrote: >> Wednesday, February 07, 2001, 9:44:04 AM, you wrote: >> R> Everytime I try and install a port/package from >> R> CD-rom, I get this error message: >> >> R> fetch: ftp.FreeBSD.org: Host name lookup failure >> >>> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >> >>> port manuall into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try >> R> again >> R> *** Error code 1 >> R> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/cucipop >> R> *** Error code 1 >> >> R> HELP ME PLEASE! >> R> TIA >> >> R> ===== >> R> **R.S.** (pronounced R-dot S-dot) >> R> "Look at all the pretty C shells" >> >> Are you connect to the internet as you do this? I'm >> sure someone will >> let me know if this is misinformation, but I believe >> that starting >> with 4.0 that there are no files on the CD-ROM and >> that they all need >> to be fetched by either the makefile or manually. >> >> So, here are the solutions: >> 1) log onto the internet, then run the install >> 2) download the .tar.gz or .tgz file into >> /usr/porst/distfiles >> since that is where the makefile looks, also, and >> run the install >> >> Good Luck, >> Neill >> freebsd@nc.rr.com >> R> ===== R> **R.S.** (pronounced R-dot S-dot) R> "Look at all the pretty C shells" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message