From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 12:05:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D416A403 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EF043D72 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2004245wxd for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:05:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=HjBLEAPBgbjz3cumnZPWE+v0ORcailDkC8Guix5kNvJjFGu1c1tRI+nFm3WITm8QqvoQkTrtIW/BBZELf57mZaQk/dI44cKR7kgSF0pCd7QYRGm+7FbVIuL9taLCWRwb+dhTPwpfy9R6j0l6haDth756bpRJKNMC3SuQqFsqe6M= Received: by 10.90.78.9 with SMTP id a9mr2006210agb; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.98.12 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0028260609120503r7fed11dcwfa84c95c05fe1f67@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:03:47 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" To: "Duane Hill" In-Reply-To: <794012650.20060912115806@yournetplus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> <200609121210.43263.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <8a0028260609120429t177ae9f9gbe09e9abe78042fb@mail.gmail.com> <794012650.20060912115806@yournetplus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RW Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:05:38 -0000 On 12/09/06, Duane Hill 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 installed as a package from sysinstall). > > Shouldn't you also be able to: > > cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean > > -- That sentence was intended not to mean "you have to install XWS as a package from sysinstall" but "It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a package built from ports". Jeff Rollin