Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:46:37 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Nielsen <men@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: men@auto.med.ohio-state.edu (Mark Nielsen) Subject: Hello! I have an installation question. Message-ID: <199611271646.LAA06142@auto.med.ohio-state.edu>
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I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 onto my computer. After I booted, I wanted to do some post installation steps. I made the /usr/ports directory and copied over the links from the second cdrom. The problem with installing packages is that one cdrom has the binaries and the other cd-rom contains make files. When I select packages in the post installation, the /stand/sysinstall program will attempt to install programs even if the wrong cd-rom is in. For example, I select to install "lynx" and "netscape". Well, lynx gets installed just fine, but netscape does not because it is on the second cdrom in the ports subdirectory. This is reall annoying. How am I to know which packages is on which cd without manually listing the files on the cdroms? Also, I could get XFree86 to compile correctly. It would have been really great if the binaries were pre-compiled. But, apparently they were not. Bummer. I am really impressed with the concepts behind the structure of FreeBSD, but I don't want to have an operating system where the installation program doesn't really work that well -- and I would like XFree86 to be pre-compiled. I also was able to get netscape installed by putting in the second cd and going to ports/www/netscape2 and typing in "make". Real easy. I would just like to be able to not have to do it manually for ever single program. Mark
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