From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD and X install- to upgrade or get latest? Message-ID: <20010115082534.A1757@arrakis.desert-power.org> In-Reply-To: <20010114224543.70793.qmail@web12008.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:46:11PM -0500 References: <20010114224543.70793.qmail@web12008.mail.yahoo.com>
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Keith, I do not know the answer to all of your questions, however I seem to have noticed something about installing FreeBSD. I too was a total newbie with BSD, however I have had 3 years experience using Linux beforehand. I noticed that with the installation of packages that it first searches on the cd-rom, then attempts to download whatever is needed from the internet. Say for instance that I wanted to install pgp5 and move to the ports directory and type "make". Lets assume also that I have the ports cdrom in the cdrom drive. Make will first search the cdrom drive, then it will attempt to download the files it needs from the internet. What is not solely specified is that all of the ports are not on 1 cd and make does not ask you to put a specific cd in the cdrom drive. Just one thing I have noticed. Otherwise I always make sure that I am connected to the internet before installing anything. You could try connecting to the internet, booting to the installation disk and using ftp to install the latest version. I would recommend downloading the installation first before attempting to install it that way on another machine. Preferable BSD, but it could also be Linux or Unix. I'm not sure if WindowsXXXX supports running an ftp server. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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