From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 12:22:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A84137B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fARKMSZ04623; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:27 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: "'emailrob' spellberg" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are the tarballs? In-Reply-To: <3C03E0D8.448A6B11@emailrob.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, 'emailrob' spellberg wrote: You need to install the ports distro: 1) run /stand/sysinstall 2) Select "Do post install conifg of FreeBSD" 3) Select "Install additional distributions sets" 4) Select "ports" 5) Install them! > 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 > Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message