From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 15: 6:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5AE37B67B for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: from telocity.com (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23995; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3936DEDE.1A614F90@telocity.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:08:31 -0400 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Williams Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help References: <20000601215359.52526.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Williams wrote: > > Hi, > Please correct me if this is the incorrect address/method to obtain > technical support. However, if it is, I would be grateful if you could help > me with FreeBSD. I rescently installed it on my system. The problem came > when I tried to install one of the ports. I have a single cdrom distribution > of FreeBSD, and mounted it with the command: > > mount /dev/acd0c > > (I'm not exactly sure of the device name I used, but I know it mounted the > CDROM succesfuly, as I could browse it in /cdrom). I then went to > /usr/src/ports/editors/emacs. There, I typed 'make'. Unfortunately, it > spouted a ton of errors at me. It would appear that it is trying to download > the ports from an FTP connection, as opposed to using the CDROM. I have read > the BSD handbook, but I can find no reference to this problem, and have > followed all the steps as instructed. Mike, I don't think you followed all the steps as instructed... read (yes, again) http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html and look again. The dir you need to be in is /usr/ports/editors/emacs when you do your "make install". Reading and retaining what you read are entirely different. Regards, Otter >I am using FreeBSD version 4.0. > > Thankyou for your help. > Mike > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message