From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 4:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mesache.encomix.es (mesache.encomix.es [194.143.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3CBB37B69B for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 04:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32671 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2001 12:11:01 -0000 Received: from dynamic.137.213.es.encomix.com (HELO jesus) (194.143.213.137) by mesache.encomix.es with SMTP; 15 Jan 2001 12:11:01 -0000 Message-ID: <00b501c07eec$d1dbd2c0$4200a8c0@jesus> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= To: "FreeBSD" , "Edwin Groothuis" References: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus> <20010115125818.B44350@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Subject: Re: ports Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:15:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Is strange but I read I have to do make install and have my cdrom mounted on the FreeBSD handbook. I see I have a .tar.gz on the first CD (/usr/ports) of FreeBSD so I should decompress all on my hard disk to install bash for example?. Thanks for all. -- Jesús Arnáiz Departamento de Sistemas - ARCOMEDIA.COM http://www.arcomedia.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" To: "Jesús Arnáiz" Cc: "FreeBSD" Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: ports > 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