Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Scott W
Krikket wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roop Nanuwa wrote: Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). Thank you! The install went more or less without a hitch. For some rea

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Dave
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:34:33 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I got my copy of FreeBSD by downloading the isos. CD 1 & 2 and "mini". >That's all that was available. Disc 1 is the install disc. Disc 2 is the repair/recovery disc "Mini" is disk 1 stripped down to more or less bare minimum. It's all you

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:34:33AM -0500, Krikket wrote: > I'm going to hold off on replying for a day, while I give this stuff a > shot, but this part does raise a question for me... > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Those packages are what goes onto the FTP sites, and a > > sampl

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Krikket
I'm going to hold off on replying for a day, while I give this stuff a shot, but this part does raise a question for me... On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Those packages are what goes onto the FTP sites, and a > sample of the most popular ones go into the install CDs -- there's > *far*

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:13PM -0500, Krikket wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the various versions of freeBSD (3.x, > 4.x, and 5.x) are still being worked. Needless to say, 5.x is the > bleeding edge, but 4.x hasn't been left to go stale. (Or else how would > security patches ge

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Krikket wrote: Err... Excuse me while I'm a little bull-headed here, and attempting to adjust from the linux world. The reason I was thinking of using the -r option is because it pulls from the ftp site. It does. You should realize though that what you pull from the FTP site is no different/

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Krikket
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > Krikket wrote: > > I was able to do a "pkg_add -r cvsup" on the first try. But I ended up > > with the same problem -- not being able to find the package once it was > > installed. Needless to say, I can't add any ports as a result. > > Why are you us

RE: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread JJB
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Krikket Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding Packages and Ports I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. The install went more or less without a hitch. For

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Krikket
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roop Nanuwa wrote: > Krikket wrote: > > >I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to > >this flavor of *nix. > > > Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). Thank you! > >The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part > >of

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:29 pm, Krikket wrote: > I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to > this flavor of *nix. > > The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part > of the default package selection) didn't want to install. > > While I

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. Could you

Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Krikket
I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. While I can ssh to the box, it won't accept the password for users and/o