Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:15:14 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Mark Nielsen <men@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Mark Nielsen <men@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Re: Hello! I have an installation question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961127101143.9867A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199611271646.LAA06142@auto.med.ohio-state.edu>
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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
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