From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 4:11:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C2C37B4CF for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 04:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA26433; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:17:23 +0200 Message-ID: <39F41CFC.8E995878@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:11:56 +0200 From: Christoph Sold X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John G. Chronakis" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just questions References: <39F3C2A2.DBE2C094@satspeed.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John G. Chronakis" schrieb: > Hello, > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 Release yesterday and I have some > questions. > > 1. How do I uninstall a distribution package? > (i.e. src/sys after compiling a new kernel) Just delete it. have a look at the packing list of the tarball, then delete its contents. OTOH, deleting /src/sys is not wise if youplan to stay stable or current. > 2. Some ports have many dependencies that "make" fetches > and compiles before the requested port (like kde meta port). > Is there a way to tell make to clean each required package > before fetching and compiling the next? Unfortunately, there is no such thing. make clean cleans up only after the final port is installed. If you want to make clean after each port has been compiled, you'd have to resolve the dependencies by hand and compile the needed ports before compiling the dependend ones. > 3. When I try to mount my ext2fs linux partition > (hda3 on linux and I suppose ad0s3 on freebsd) > I get the following error from mount_ext2fs: > > # mount_ext2fs /dev/ad0s3 /mnt > mount_ext2fs: vfsload(ext2fs): No such file or directory > > I didn't have any trouble mounting win partitions Don't know about that - Linux is to be avoided here ;) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message