Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:35:05 -0400 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Christopher Johnson <cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports tarball location Message-ID: <00050406384301.01024@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000504022223.24016A-100000@sloth> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000504022223.24016A-100000@sloth>
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On Thu, 04 May 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Christopher Johnson wrote: > While setting up a friend's FreeBSD 4.0 machine, we didn't download the > ports collection as part of the install process (he's got some wierd > thing going with his Win98 partition[1]). I haven't been able to find the > tarball on the ftp site or any mention through the FAQ or handbook, could > someone post the location of the ports tarball? Boot FreeBSD and run /stand/sysinstall. Select 'Configure', 'Distributions' and 'Ports'. > > Chris Johnson > cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu > > [1] He's paranoid about disk space, and wants /usr/ports on the Win98 > partition. It's a shame, because the bare ports tree grows from 70MB to > nearly 1.5 GB, due to the 16K FAT32 minimum filesize. It's not really /ports that grows, but rather /ports/distfiles with the tarballs that are downloaded when doing installs. You can keep it trimmed down by deleting these files after your port install. I suppose you could link /ports/distfiles to a directory on your Windows slice. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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