From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 4:34:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from helios.soupnazi.org (cerberus.soupnazi.org [66.92.15.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A3C37B405 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by helios.soupnazi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1ED90312A; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:34:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:34:34 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com? Message-ID: <20011108123434.GA5361@helios.soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <006c01c1684a$6b372810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006c01c1684a$6b372810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i 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 Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 12:42:06 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I'm trying to fix up linux_base from the ports and just about every > file seems to have to come from ftp.freesoftware.com, which no longer > exists. How am I supposed to install anything this way? Most of the > other mirrors don't work, either. ftp.freesoftware.com has been dead for quite some time (at least 6 months or so). IIRC, the UK mirror has the linux_base bits and is fairly quick (I'm in California). > Is there any way to install this from the Wind River FreeBSD 4.3 > CD-ROM set, without going out to the Net at all? You can install the package from sysinstall... or you can install the package on the command line using pkg_add -r linux_base (that will go fetch the package from the FTP site). - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message