From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 13:11:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.lmtribune.com (www.lmtribune.com [216.222.95.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 543A837B4EC for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmciver@lmtribune.com) Received: from mailpc.lmtribune.com ([199.5.221.152]) by www.lmtribune.com (Build 98 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19087 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:12:13 -0800 Received: from ADV/SpoolDir by mailpc.lmtribune.com (Mercury 1.48); 21 Feb 01 13:10:49 -0700 Received: from SpoolDir by ADV (Mercury 1.48); 21 Feb 01 13:10:23 -0700 From: "Jim McIver" Organization: Lewiston Morning Tribune To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:10:14 -7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ports/make Message-ID: <3A93BE3A.5879.96AEFF0@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having trouble following the Complete FreeBSD's book's instructions on how to install a port and run the make. My machine doesn't have a cdrom, so I copied the files to an internal ftp site to be able to get to the files to the Freebsd machine. I wanted to try the mtools(mdir, etc..) so I could try to read a dos floppy. Right now is say's command not found. Of course I've tried other port/make's and nothing seems to work correctly. (Got to be a user error on my part) Ftp'ed the file named mtools-3.9.7.tgz from the cdrom to the freebsd machine. Ran "pkg_add mtools-3.9.7.tgz" this completed without any errors. Went to /usr/ports/emulators/mtools and ran "make" Error comes back saying "mtools-3.9.7.tar" is not in the /usr/ports/distfiles area....so I gzip -d the mtools-3-9.7.tgz and copied the resulting mtools-3.9.7.tar file into the /usr/ports/distfiles directory so make could find it and tried make again. Same error message. I have ver 4.2(I think)of freebsd. It doesn't connect to the internet yet so it fails when trying to grab files from the web site. Is there a step by step instruction sheet for installing ports and running the make and make install that work? Of course I'm not sure what I'd do if make install worked, does that mean the program installed and is ready to run? Regards, Jim McIver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message