Hello Frank,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote:
snip
FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree:
FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
FS (warning! 35MB compressed)
Will do when I have Internet connection via FreeBSD box.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote:
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree
does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from
CD.
That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't
complete, as in:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:19:22AM -0400, ograbme wrote:
Hello Frank,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote:
snip
FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree:
FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
FS (warning! 35MB
I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I
got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names
being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2.
I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What
is the purpose of Disc2 and what
On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I
got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names
being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2.
I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:41, Jeff Rollin wrote:
To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to
install software from source that does not come as part of the base
distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD
installs itself to directories in
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it
must be installed as a package from sysinstall).
Jeff Rollin
___
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated:
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it
must be installed as a package from sysinstall).
Shouldn't you also
On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated:
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so
it
must be
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:29, Jeff Rollin wrote:
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it
must be installed as a package from sysinstall).
That's actually my biggest
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:03:47 PM, Jeff confabulated:
On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated:
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was
Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote:
JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do
not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a
little while
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:02, ograbme wrote:
I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in
the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo
directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it.
I then made sure I was in the directory containing
Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree
in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.
with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an
up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a
not-updated base install from CD. OP might be
Perry Hutchison wrote:
Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree
in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.
with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an
up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a
not-updated base install
On 12/09/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Jeff,
First of all ... thanks for your help and suggestions ... please see
comments interwoven below.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:20:51 PM, you wrote:
snip
JR You need to go back into sysinstall and install the ports
JR collection. That
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree
does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from
CD.
That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't
complete, as in: not all the ports are there.
Any idea why? (I am referring to the
Perry Hutchison wrote:
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree
does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from
CD.
That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't
complete, as in: not all the ports are there.
Any idea why? (I am
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:02:33PM -0400, ograbme wrote:
Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote:
JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do
not have access
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