From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 17:16:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA16528 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:16:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from forevermail.com (root@forevermail.com [204.182.37.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA16517 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sapphire by sapphire.alisa.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA01172; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:14:49 -0700 Message-ID: <32D6E988.78A0@sapphire.alisa.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:14:48 -0700 From: "John J. Rushford" Organization: My place on the front range X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org Subject: 2.1.5 Installation Woes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem installing ports/packages from the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 Cdroms. It seems that since the ports and packages reside on different CD's, the sysinstall utility does not work properly. I've given up on using it and have begun to install ports/packages manually. When installing manually, I have to copy the ports files off the cdrom onto the hard disk. I'm using 'make install' and a 'work' directory is expected and cannot be created naturally on the cdrom. Is there anything I can do differently to get around this? Right now, my biggest problem seems to be the absence of 'imake'. It doesn't appear to be on any of the CD's and my manual installation tactics have failed when trying to install 'apsfilter' which depends on 'trasfig' which depends on 'xpm' which requires 'imake' (Frustration, Frustration, Frustration). I didn't seem to have so much trouble with 2.1.0. Anyway, I can't read the FreeBSD newsgroups and get any help as I can't install 'cnews', 'inn', 'tin', etc... Can you give me any help/ideas? thanks John Rushford wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org