From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 09:10:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA19597 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca (root@cicerone.uunet.ca [142.77.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19569 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dwarf.all-niter.org ([142.77.1.22]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <115507-477>; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:09:36 -0400 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960815162140.006cb00c@142.77.1.254> X-Sender: grimcon.grimmettj@142.77.1.254 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:21:40 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Grimmett Subject: Ports won't compile Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I follow the handbook directions on compiling ports from the CDROM, the process fails because it cannot find the distribution archive in /cdrom/packages/All. This process worked on previous distributions but I am now using snapshot 05/01/96 and it no longer works. Help!! Could someone reply with the series of commands that create a directory, link /usr/ports to it and create a link tree to allow me to compile from the CDROM. Thanx, John