From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 10:50:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blue.dls.net (blue.dls.net [209.242.10.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036D337B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from emailrob.com (084-dls801.dls.net [216.145.235.84]) by blue.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9998C120057 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:50:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C03E0D8.448A6B11@emailrob.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:52:08 -0600 From: 'emailrob' spellberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: where are the tarballs? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message