From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 04:24:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA16261 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 04:24:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA16254 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 04:24:19 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (5.65v3.2/1.0/WV) id AA18276; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:16:44 -0400 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA18697; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:16:35 +0200 Message-Id: <9610181116.AA18697@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) of Fri, 18 Oct 96 18:11:05 EDT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Where to get into the Packages installation? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Oct 96 13:16:34 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk donny@ms1.hinet.net writes: > My new kernel works well, but I'm not. I can't find the packages > installation enter point during the run of /stand/sysunstall. Could > someone point me out? > use pkg_add instead of sysinstall once you have FBSD running. See the man page for pkg_add. > BTW, when I had a look at /stand, I found most of excatables > there have the same length, around 900k. I guess it because > of the filesystem limitation, but does it waste disk space? > they're all static links to the same executable, so only inodes get used. Once you have FBSD up and running you can just toss /stand, you shouldn't need it any longer. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org