From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 4:46:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897F137B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 04:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eALCkBf23879; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:46:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:46:11 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Micke Josefsson Subject: RE: HELP !!! Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Nov-00 Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 21-Nov-00 Alexey wrote: >> Dear Sir. >> I have encountered some problems installing and running FreeBSD 4.1.1. Here >> is >> my system configuration: ABIT BF6 motherboard, Celeron 400 MHz, 32 Mb SDRAM, >> Voodoo Banshee, PCI Winmodem, SB16 and IDE Disks. During the first >> inslallation phase (two floppies -> menu -> full screen kernel config) there >> were 8 errors in "Network" section: 8 ethernet adapters were marked with >> CONF. >> So I disabled them all and installed FreeBSD. Then during the boot process it >> hang on sendmail init. So I had to dasable sendmail by putting NO in >> rc.conf's >> sendmail_enable section. So the boot process in now clear. But when I tried >> to >> install Midnight Commander port it hang on ifconf checking. What am I to do? > > If you actually are installing a *port* then it expects the source code in > /usr/ports/distfiles/, if it's not there it will try and fetch it from the net > which must of course check if the NIC is there. After reading the handbook I must correct myself rather severly. It will apparently first look into /cdrom and if not found there then go on to the net. Sorry about that. With your CD mounted as /cdrom you should be able to make ports. /Micke again > Either install midc as a package via /stand/sysinstall from CDROM, or get the > source tarball of midnight commander (it's a *.tgz name) from ftp.freebsd.org, > put it in the distfiles-dir then cd to the proper directory in /usr/ports... > and > do a make install. > > The second method is more cumbersome and, should there be a) dependencies that > the build of midc relies on, you will have to get them too, or it won't 'make > install' properly (it will say so though) or b) version discrepancies between > what the skeleton in /usr/ports expects and the actual *.tgz file in > distfiles/ > then the make will also fail, in which case you probably will have to update > your ports tree. > > Stick to packages unless you have a very good reson not to. > > /Micke > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message