From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 29 13:40:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B3F37B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mvaexch00.acuson.com ([157.226.230.212]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA66E4; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:40:06 -0800 Received: by mvaexch00.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:35:26 -0800 Received: from there (dhcp-46-100.acuson.com [157.226.46.100]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id CJVD1PVD; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:30:54 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Matt H , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: ports on FreeBSD4.4 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:39:57 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020129132410.12323.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> <20020129185130.55FB137B404@hub.freebsd.org> <20020129210315.4f8fc390.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020129210315.4f8fc390.matt@proweb.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020129214008.58B3F37B402@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:03 pm, Matt H wrote: > by default ports are searched for in /usr/ports/distfiles First off, these CDs contain precompiled packages as well as the source code. Second, after searchng for the ports in /usr/ports/distfiles, it will search for them at /cdrom/ports/distfiles. Far from being useless, CDs 3 and 4 are very useful things to have, and very easy to use. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message