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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:52:08 -0600
From:      'emailrob' spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   where are the tarballs?
Message-ID:  <3C03E0D8.448A6B11@emailrob.com>

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to whomever can answer this ---

i've gone through lehey 3rd edition.

ditto online handbook.

there is --NO-- /cdrom/ports/distfiles.

there are no distfiles anywhere
  except /usr/ports and it is empty.

there are no ports on disks 2, 3 or 4.

i checked 3.2, 4.2 and 4.4.

make wants a tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles.

objective:  install everything on the cds.

plan b:  install everything perl.

holy grail:  "hello, world" using perl/tk.

i have run the install script in /cdrom/ports.
i have installed the cvs-repository.

i buy the cds because all i have is dialup speed.

q:  where are the tarballs?

the only tarballs i find are in individual packages.

am i supposed to install packages one-by-one?

what happens to specifying options?

what is the current correct procedure
  to transfer everything on the cds to hard drive?

tia

rob spellberg
harvard, illinois

emailrob@emailrob.com

ps:  /stand/sysinstall does not recognize
  the fbsd disks as fbsd disks.

also, the mount point is called /cdrom.

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