From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 02:18:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA13614 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raptor2.Stanford.EDU (raptor2.Stanford.EDU [36.219.0.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA13579 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from commie@localhost) by raptor2.Stanford.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3) id CAA18082; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Franz Kafka To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing ports Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I am running RedHat linux, and i was dumb enought to download their new rembrandt version, and of course it didn't come with perl or colorls or whois or anythign important. so i tried to install a FreeBSD version of that software, but wehn i untarred the file i just got a directory copy of your ftp site, and when i ran the makefile file i kept getting errors. Of course, i am a very inexperienced user and might have been doing something wrong, so could you please tell me how to install your port programs (if it is possible at all to install them on a machine running RedHat) I also tried reloading FreeBSD on my machine throught ftp, but for some reason when it got the part "initializing network adapter ep0" (i have 3c509 3com etherlink III card) it would just hang and after about 10 minutes i jsut gave up. It would do so repetitevily, that's why i still have RedHat instead of FreeBSD So if you could, please tell me how to install your patches on a RedHat machine, if possible thank you very much toli ~~~ ************************** | | * _ _ * ____________\ - - * | |) (| | * \ | @ | * |he |)ad /|ussian |oli * ____________ / |ABS| * * / |OLU| ************************** | T | ----- ...You take one down, you pass it around... Anatoliy "Toli" Kuznets Storey House P.O. Box 12737 Room 310 Stanford, CA 94309 (415) 497-5346 http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~commie/