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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:32:15 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        nakins@arkansas.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what ports are needed?
Message-ID:  <19991102143215.48192@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <381F47B8.3AB7@arkansas.net>; from noel akins on Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:21:12PM -0600
References:  <381F47B8.3AB7@arkansas.net>

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On Tuesday,  2 November 1999 at 14:21:12 -0600, noel akins wrote:
> Hello,
> I've bought a FreeBSD 3.2 cd set with a book. Will be getting it in a
> day or so by ups.

I hope you got it for a good price.  3.2 is an old version; the
current version is 3.3.

> There are over 2000 ports on these cd's. And, I don't know what I
> absolutly have to have. I want to install Apache/PHP/MySQL.  I know
> I need an editor and X11, minicom, and some support files or
> libraries for the things I ve mentioned. I would like to add an ftp
> and irc client too. I want to hook my mac up to my FBSD box to
> simulate a web enivorment.
>
> Do I need to add some kind of ppp, dhcp or tcp/ip stuff? 

You'll need at least TCP/IP if you want to talk to another machine.  I
don't know too much what your Mac will expect, though.  Most of the
ports are on the CD-ROMs.

Greg
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