Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: cdrom / installing ports Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010061543440.17358-100000@demeter>
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I have my atapi cdrom defined in my kernal with 'device atapicd' and it is mounted in fstab as '/dev/acd0a /cdrom ufs 0 0' which works correctly, or so it appears, and I verify this by changing to the /cdrom directory and am able to view files contained on the cdrom but cannot install ports from it for some reason. In 'The Complete FreeBSD' it says my cdrom must be mounted to /cdrom, which it is, and that one port that I can build that licensing permits it to be on the cdrom is xchat. I tried installing this from the cd by changing to /usr/ports/irc/xchat and when I try the 'make' command, it tells me it doesnt seem to exist on the system, as is shown in the book's example, but then it only attempts to retrieve and build it via ftp, but this does not work since I don't have any way of connecting it to the internet. How do I make my computer look on the cdrom first, and is there a way to tell which ports are only ftp retrievable? Thank you Wyatt Banks banksw@sunyit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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