From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 17:36:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04274 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04266 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:35:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA02387; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:35:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:35:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: John Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ports from CD In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970313181849.00a85c20@199.3.74.250> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, John Clark wrote: > I have installed the FreeBSD 2.1.7 CD via FTP using the CD on one box and > my network. The install went ok until I go to the ports. I can fetch an > "Index" but whenever I go to install a particular port, it fails, > complaining that the ports are not found. Could someone tell me what > subdir the sysinstall utility is looking for? And, no, I am not timing out > on the FTP session. pkg installation was not built for going over anything but CDROM. Just download the package you are interested in and run pkg_add package.tgz, or download the port's directory, cd into it, and type 'make' to build it and 'make install' to install it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major