From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 26 23:29:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C2637B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3443E43E77 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from floess@earthlink.net) Received: from beaker.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.247] helo=beaker.psp.pas.earthlink.net) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17jZqv-0005Hh-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:29:25 -0700 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by beaker.psp.pas.earthlink.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id g7R6TPJ07447 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:29:25 -0700 From: To: freebsd support Reply-To: floess@earthlink.net Subject: re: re: ports Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: 63.184.32.171 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What are the exact "road blocks" that you mentioned earlier? Here’s what I got: # mtools-3.9.8.tar.gz doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles This could probably just be an internet configuration error, but seeing how your were able to ftp onto a site successfully, this probably isn't the case. I didn’t ftp from FreeBSD, I had to go back to windows to ftp, then I went back to FreeBSD, and copied mtools-3.9.8.tar.gz form my dos partition to /usr/ports/distfiles and ran make again. This time it got past mtools-3.9.8.tar.gz, but got this message: #mtools-3.9.8-20011127.diff.gz doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles So I went back to windows, and downloaded this file, and then went back to FreeBSD and continued the installation only to get another message similar to this on. I understand that in order for this port to run, others have to be installed, but this back and forth thing between widows and FreeBSD, is a little cumbersome, and I just thought that when I installed the ports collection they would have everything on them I needed to compile a program Run "make install && make clean" while in the proper directory and connected to the internet, or having a CD-ROM that has all of the port's tarballs mounted. Does the 4.5 install disk have the tarballs on them? I wasn’t able to find them, and this is what led me to the ealier part of this email and my original email. Hopedully I didn't confuse the matter too much. Best wishes, and thanx, Desmond To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message