From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 13:26:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C191B37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34F1243F85 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from adsl-67-39-35-214.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net (HELO bsdprophet.org) (bsdprophet%sbcglobal.net@67.39.35.214 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2003 20:26:28 -0000 Message-ID: <3EEF79A1.8090405@bsdprophet.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:27:13 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ja, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Pidluberg References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HELP!!! I'm a newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:26:30 -0000 Oops here it is! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Tony Pidluberg wrote: > Dear Mam/Sir > > I have a fair knowledge of commandline and win32, but recently I've > decided to take on freebsd "as a newbie" to expand my knowledge of the > diffrernt OS's. I'm having various after install issues and can't seem > to find a forum that is dealing with some of the more basic concepts. I > have read the freeBSD handbook & the porters handbook, but am still > having problems. I want to install the sources for the ports from a CD, > not ftp. I've done a full install and even added a lInux and DOS > partition using the BSD boot manager. > > PLease help > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- *BSD is for People who Love *nix; Linux is for People who Hate Windows