From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 16:16:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90AA37B926 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-239.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.239] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA27155; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:18:10 +1000 From: Danny To: "Michael Williams" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 09:23:06 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000601215359.52526.qmail@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060309235603.00348@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /stand/sysinstall is such more easier to use Why not use /stand/sysinstall > configuration > [packages Looking foward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, 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. 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