From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 15:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E042D37B50F for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0685.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.252.175]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25273; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00253; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:15:56 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: josh b Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port probs Message-ID: <20000617151555.A220@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <4.3.1.1.20000617140648.00a98260@pop3.concentric.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20000617140648.00a98260@pop3.concentric.net>; from statik@cris.com on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:08:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:08:19PM -0700, josh b wrote: > why i try to install any port it says it cant reach the ftp site, most > likely becuase im not conected to the internet..but i do have the 4 cd set > with the port dist files on them, how can i install those? The standard port build looks in /usr/ports/distfiles for the distfiles, and if it's not there, it goes to downloading. Either copy the distfiles needed to that location, or another trick is something like, # mount /dev/acd0c /cdrom # cd /usr/ports # rmdir distfiles # ln -s /cdrom/ports/distfiles . I'm not sure about the path to the distfiles on the CD, but you get the idea; make a symbolic link to them. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message