installing ports

[Mbuthia Wangui]

When I try to use portinstall, this is the error I get: 

ETR1800# pkg_add -r portsnap
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Latest/portsnap.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Latest/portsnap.tgz' by URL
ETR1800# 


Did I mention that I am a FreeBSD dummy.

Regards,

Phyllis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mbuthia Wangui" <pwangui at africaonline.co.ke>
To: "Jeff Palmer" <questions at totaldiver.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: installing ports


> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion and yes the bandwidth manager is an etinc
> (ETR1800) box.
> 
> Let me see how the portsnap goes.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Palmer" <questions at totaldiver.net>
> To: <pwangui at africaonline.co.ke>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: installing ports
> 
> 
> <snipped out the original email>
> 
> 
> You may want to try using portsnap.
> 
> 
> pkg_add -r portsnap
> 
> then
> portsnap fetch extract
> 
> 
> BTW:  This sounds like one of the etnic (sp?) bandwidth manager boxes.
> Would that happen to be the case?
> 
> 
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