From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 9: 3:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f268.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D8C37B405 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:03:38 -0700 Received: from 61.11.74.131 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:03:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [61.11.74.131] From: "Ganesh Kumar" To: wmoran@potentialtech.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent - ports install error - pls help ! Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:03:38 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jun 2002 16:03:38.0943 (UTC) FILETIME=[89A1CCF0:01C21ACF] 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 >From: Bill Moran >Do you have a net connection from this machine? It looks like you're >unable >to connect to the Internet to download the necessary files. mkisofs may be >on the CD. Read this page and see if it helps you: >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html No.I dont have a net connection to this machine.I just downloaded the mkisofs.tgz file from the ports directory of a freeBSD ftp site.Could some one let me know how to copy this file ? My floppy drive is Sony - NEC clone. /dev/fd0 doesnt work(tried all the combinations). regards Ganesh Kumar >To: Ganesh Kumar >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Urgent - ports install error - pls help ! >Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:59:11 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [65.168.0.12] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBEDDF66B005D4004325E41A8000CCADC0; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:52:59 -0700 >Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com >[65.168.1.181])by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id >g5MGqvr11921;Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:52:57 -0400 >From wmoran@potentialtech.com Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:54:11 -0700 >Message-ID: <3D14ACDF.3040302@potentialtech.com> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) >Gecko/20020502 >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >References: > >Ganesh Kumar wrote: >>Hi, >>I am unable to install the ports in my machine.When I use the >>/cdrom/ports/install.sh it seems to install everything but when I give , > >No, installing that does not install everything. It only installs "config" >files that explain to the system how to get the necessary files and install >them. >If you wanted to install EVERYTHING for all the ports, you would need mucho >gigabytes. > >># cd /usr/ports/sysutils/mkisofs >>#make >> >>I get,"Fetching from ftp://...".mkisofs.tgz not found in >>/usr/ports/distfile. > >Do you have a net connection from this machine? It looks like you're >unable >to connect to the Internet to download the necessary files. mkisofs may be >on the CD. Read this page and see if it helps you: >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html > >-- >Bill Moran >Potential Technologies >http://www.potentialtech.com > -- Yvonne: Where were you last night? Rick: That's so long ago, I don't remember. Yvonne: Will I see you tonight? Rick: I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca(1942) _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message