From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 17 18:06:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19514 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net ([204.191.205.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19507 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00858; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:00:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:00:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Patrick Burm cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.1-Release to 2.2-stable upgrade kit - HOW In-Reply-To: <199706172344.QAA16193@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Patrick Burm wrote: > Ok, flame me all you want... .... nah;} > I was on the web page looking up some ports > and I noticed the paragraph at the top suggesting > I download and install this thing so that I can > use the ports. > > So I downloaded and untarred it... > > Now what? I'm sure its really simple but... > there is no documentation on how to use > this stuff. I looked in the handbook etc > no luck. Everything in the handbook makes > some assumptions IMHO that you've been > using FreeBSD since 1.0 [from /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook_toc.html] 4.2. The Ports collection 4.2.1. Why have a Ports Collection? 4.2.2. How does the Ports collection work? 4.2.3. Getting a FreeBSD Port 4.2.3.1. Compiling ports from CDROM 4.2.3.2. Compiling ports from the Internet [...] there are some step by step examples. Its actually quite fun when you learn how. -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ..."