From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 00:16:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18114 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA08070; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:07:16 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id CAA09311; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:07:15 -0600 (CST) To: "mikey" Cc: Subject: Re: Cannot use modem References: <02fab1021210c28UPIMSSMTPUSR03@email.msn.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 13 Feb 1998 02:07:14 -0600 In-Reply-To: "mikey"'s message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:20:59 -0600" Message-ID: <87lnvgj5cd.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "mikey" writes: > Also, I can't build any ports, like Netscape. I've installed the ports > collection, but when I try to make the port, the system attempts to FTP it > from the net (which I can't access). Is there any way to tell the system to > access the CD-ROM when I try and build my ports? Well, ports isn't going to be that useful for you without network connection: most of the stuff you want and can compile is going to be in package format already on the CDROM... you'll want to just run pkg_install /cdrom/whatever.tgz. Netscape is not on the CDROM,, so you need to ftp it, or get it from win95 partition, or something. then, put it in /usr/ports/distfiles and try make install in the netscape port. > Finally, is there any way I can access files one my MS DOS partition? > I've downloaded StarOffice for Linux (under Win '95) as well as the Linux > emulator, but I can't get the files off of my FreeBSD partition. Yes, look at the man page for mount. and mount_msdos. However (a) there is no vfat support (b) it's pretty buggy and might even crash your system! I could list about 100 reasons to choose freebsd over linux, but this isn't one of them--if acccess to your win95 filesystem is a big priority for daily operations (not just before you get networking under unix going), then you might want to consider linux instead. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message