From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 09:01:46 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 2CC4116A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:01:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F5F43D48 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:01:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1B6D61C0008D for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id F04B71C0008A for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050227090144984.F04B71C0008A@mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:01:46 -0000 John writes: > I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it > by hand. It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. > How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up a few hundred megabytes, it seems. > If space is tight, running make > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents > of /usr/ports/distfiles Does pkg_add do this? > [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports && make index I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the "installation media" for the software. It always downloads some sort of index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list of all the ports available. -- Anthony