From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 23:14:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA21119 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA21114 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10306; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:13:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hoang Q Tran cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install port collection In-Reply-To: <199710102115.RAA17639@freenet5.carleton.ca.carleton.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hoang Q Tran wrote: > I want to install bash-2.0.tgz from the FreeBSD 2.2.2 > port collection. I've followed the "Compiling ports from CDROM" > in the handbook and still get the error: >> bash-2.0.tgz doesn't > seem to exist on this system. Attempting to fetch ... << > I checked the CDROM for the file "distfiles" supposedly under > /cdrom/ports/ and *it's not there*. Do you have a net connection? If you do, then let the port do it's thing and grab the distribution file from the master site. Also, are the distfiles mounted/copied under /usr/ports/distfiles? bash-2.0.tar.gz is certainly on the 2.2.2 CDROM in ports/distfiles. gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,94>pwd /cdrom/ports/distfiles gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,95>ls ba* bash-1.14.7.tar.gz bash-2.0.tar.gz bash-doc-2.0.tar.gz Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major