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From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To: "Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@lucidvision.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 Ports Installation Woes
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> changed directories into /usr/ports/<subdir>/<package> 
> and typed 'make install'. However, when I do this now,
> I get the following errors:
> 
> >> tcsh-6.08.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system
> >> Attempting to fetch from ftp:://...
> fetch: ftp.astron.com: host name looku pfailure
> ...
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again
> *** Error Code 1

	Are you connected to the Internet when this happens? The problem 
is that it's timing out on finding a route to that FTP site. If you're 
doing dial-up make sure PPP is running before doing make install again.


					Rick


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