From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 10:15:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03076 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA03070 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA09876; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:15:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:15:14 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Mark Nielsen cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Mark Nielsen Subject: Re: Hello! I have an installation question. In-Reply-To: <199611271646.LAA06142@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Mark Nielsen wrote: > 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. One cd-rom has packages, which are precompiled binaries that can be installed with pkg_add. The other has make files, source code, md5 checksums, etc. > 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. So . . . put the right cd-rom 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. They are. > 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. The package system has its bugs, yes. But I've found the ports collection to work pretty well. Have you tried installing this stuff on a unix other than FreeBSD? > 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 > Ben