Drew, When discussing questions from the list, you should always include the list in your reply rather than dropping to individual exchanges. I will add the questions list back in.
> Ok I think I see the point. I will go ahead and burn CDs rather than > mounting a cd image from windows with a cd emulator... I'll boot up with > install disc one and go from there. > > Question, What benefit is there to dling and installing CD#2 ( i see multi > language support, don't need that ) The disc2 Cd contains additional software from what is called Ports in FreeBSD. It is only useful if you have difficulty with a network connection. If you have a good network connection, then it would all be installed over the net. Just make sure when you do the initial install, you include the ports collection. That is on disc1 and it installs a framework (skeleton) for the ports system. Then when you want to install something such as vmware or firefox or apache, etc you cd to the relevant directory in the ports tree and all you have to do is a make clean; make; make install; make distclean and it will go out and get the files and do the necessary builds. You can even combine all those makes. > Will my web designers and developers benefit from any additional stuff on CD > 2 or the VMWARE downloads? I'm just kind of the manager here but I work > remotely with the technical guys, if they lived down the street I'm sure > they could come over and tell me what I need hah. They will benefit from that stuff, but if there is a decent network connection, it is just as well, maybe better, to get it from the net as the ports continue to be updated somewhat asynchronously from the OS release. ////jerry > > Thanks, and thank you for the help so far. > > regards > > > On 3/21/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:25:34PM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 20:33, Drew White wrote: > >> > Hi NOOB question... > >> > >> Hi... > >> > >> > I installed a second hard drive on the > >> > computer to put FreeBSD on, with windows xp on the other > >> > drive. Can I dl the software and install it on the other hard > >> > drive without burning it to cds or using floppy discs? > >> > Wondering if I can do it from the other drive/operating > >> > system. > >> > >> Yes, you can. But you need to install the boot loader on > >> the first disc. Try using shell from install disc. > > > >The problem is, he seems to be asking about doing it without > >making an install disc. Once he has made the install CD, > >then he might as well go ahead and do the install with it > >and not bother with the MS monkey business. > > > >////jerry > > > >> > >> > Thanks, please advise. > >> > > >> > Drew > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> > >> Regards, > >> -- > >> .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer > >> ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict > >> OOO | BSD & Linux User | Standards Rocks! > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > -- > Drew White > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
