From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 3:58:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFAB37B404 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 03:58:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 768FD195; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:58:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:58:18 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <20010115125818.B44350@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> References: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus>; from arnaiz@encomix.es on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:45:12AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:45:12AM +0100, Jesús Arnáiz wrote: > Hi! > > I've FreeBSD 4.2 installed. I try to install some ports doing this: > > # mount /cdrom > # cd /usr/ports > # make > > But every time I see it try to find the .tar.gz file on a ftp > site. It don't look on my CD. Ports aren't stored on the cdrom, they are on ftp- and http-servers. So cd to the right directory you want to install (for example: /usr/ports/misc/less) and type "make" there. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message