From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 16 13:20:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A734E153F4 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor (modem-124-st.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.124]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA13634; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:28:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <000a01bf001c$9f815200$7c2137cb@igor> From: "Don Hansford" To: "gregory kinney" , References: <19990916130020.82299.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: the saga continues Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:22:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First you have to mount the cdrom - mount /cdrom Make sure the cdrom is mounted before you try the make install. Otherwise, use /stand/sysinstall (don't mount the cdrom first), do a "post install configuration", " add pre packaged software", "from a freebsd cd", browse the cd, select the item you want, and OK, then Install. Regards Igor Double your drive space - delete Windows! ----- Original Message ----- From: gregory kinney To: Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: the saga continues > Hi all > For those of you following my inane instilation; > I spent 5 hours yesterday trying to get BSD on a 2 hard drive 486 with 2 > ethernet cards. > The purpose being to use it as a file server bridge between two Win95/NT > subnets. > > I ended up with one hardrive running Win95 and one running BSD(finaly), and > a boot manager that works. > NOW I am trying to get samba to run. > right. > When I follow the instructions in the book; > cd /usr/ports/net/samba > make install > > it waits for a little while then tries to get about 10 ftp sites and then > prints lots of errors. > > ok, i installed the ports collection - i can see the Makefile there - it > just wont WORK! > when I try to directly install from the cd by going to /cdrom with the CD in > the drive, there is nothing there > ls = zilch. > > fellow newbies; > WHAT AM I DOING WRONG THIS TIME!!!!! > > greg kinney > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message