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To: Pete Chiboucas <connect@transport.com>
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Subject: Re: HELP? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:36:08 PST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:46:49 -0800
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>After 3 days of non stop reading and trying I am one lost puppy! It seemed
>to load fine, I have added users and seem to have no problem with hardware
>config etc.., but I can't:
>
>figure out how to load and run any of the software.
>
>following instructions under WWW Resources in the handbook 
>        #cd /usr/ports/net/netscape 
>        #make all install
>returns:
>        make: don't know how to make all. Stop
>
>ls finds files in the directories and subdirectories.
>
>make alone returns: make: no target to make 
>
>Help me please I am going bonkers.

   Well, it *looks* like you're doing the right things. What's in the
directory? It looks like the Makefile is missing or /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk
is either missing or corrupted.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project