From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 11:59:32 2005 Return-Path: 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 A32B916A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:59:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp01.eresmas.com (asmtp01.eresmas.com [62.81.235.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB0543D1D for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:59:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.54] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp01.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D5jYg-0003x5-5z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:59:30 +0100 Received: from [80.103.35.66] (helo=[80.103.35.66]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D5jYf-0006GG-So for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:59:30 +0100 Message-ID: <42224A80.9010109@wanadoo.es> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:32:32 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <200502270835.07745.zettel@acm.org> <936195408.20050227152751@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <936195408.20050227152751@wanadoo.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.4 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.4 (/) Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:59:32 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Leonard Zettel writes: > > >>My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the >>ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than >>going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many >>port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port >>versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise >>to their packages. > > > Unfortunately, bugs in the handling of my SCSI disks prevent me from > doing anything that is disk-intensive without crashing the system, so > downloading the ports collection probably won't be possible. > Anthony, I understand your frustration. I think you should fix the SCSI problems before doing anything. The ports collection really works very well. Perhaps some experts here can help you with your SCSI. I am a FreeBSD novice ;-) Ramiro.