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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 96 13:16:34 +0200
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where to get into the Packages installation? 
Message-ID:  <9610181116.AA18697@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee)  of Fri, 18 Oct 96  18:11:05 EDT.

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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.

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