From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 09:26:17 2003 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 7328416A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.clear.net.nz (smtp2.clear.net.nz [203.97.37.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D361143FFB for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghub005@xtra.co.nz) Received: from Walnut (203-167-191-144.dsl.clear.net.nz [203.167.191.144]) by smtp2.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with SMTP id <0HKW0052ILNQSU@smtp2.clear.net.nz> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:26:14 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:26:13 +1200 From: Gavin Hubbard In-reply-to: <20030908160626.GA603@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Matthew Seaman Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20 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, 08 Sep 2003 16:26:17 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Seaman > That's because the mini-iso doesn't contain any packages. However, > apart from installing some third party packages, you have, in fact, > successfully installed FreeBSD. > > I suggest that you quit out of sysinstall, boot up your system in > FreeBSD, log in, make sure you set up the networking correctly and: > > Either: install the cvsup-without-gui port by: > > # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > Then use cvsup(1) to pull down the latest ports tree (see Appendix A.5 > of the handbook for instructions: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html) > and install the extra software that you want via the ports(7) system. > Each time you update the ports tree, remember to run 'make index' to > regenerate the INDEX file. That takes a little time, as it has to > chew through about 9,100 ports and sort out all of the dependencies > and so forth. > > Highly recommended (if you choose this route) that the first port > you install should be sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade to > install everything else. > > Or: from within FreeBSD, run sysinstall -- for 4.{8,9} it's > /stand/sysinstall, for 5.x it's /usr/sbin/sysinstall, go into the > Options section, set your installation media to FTP, choose a nearby > FTP server, then go into the 'Configuration' section and 'Packages' > within that. This will download the packages/INDEX from the FTP > server and give you a fairly easy way to install what packages you > require. Hi Matthew Thank-you very much for your carefully considered reply - I now have a working system. With very best regards, Gavin Hubbard