From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 20: 0:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.javanet.com (mail1.javanet.com [205.219.162.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6E514E5A for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 20:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from media@mail1.nai.net) Received: from [209.150.38.84] (ct-hartford-us840.javanet.com [209.150.35.141]) by mail1.javanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA02061; Sun, 9 May 1999 23:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19990507150524.A61232@blues.ghis.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@blues.ghis.net From: media@mail1.nai.net Subject: Re: install ports from .tgz on disk?? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:05 PM +1000 5/7/99, Jim Mock wrote: > >> I've been going around in circle trying to install ports. I don't >> have internet software set up for FreeBSD yet. When I go into a >> directory for a ported application, and type "make install" it >> tries to ftp a site it can't get to because it's not online. >> >> Is there anyway I can use ports with tarballs I already have saved >> to my primary DOS partion?? > >A few ways should work.. > >1) mount the dos partition and move the tarballs from your dos > partition to /usr/ports/distfiles (since that's where the ports > look for them) Thanx!! I tried that. It wouldn't let me use mv, but cp worked. I went to /usr/ports/www/lynx and typed "make install" but I got the same error message: ## Couldn't fetch it -- please try to retrieve this ## port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again So how do I "port manually" ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message