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From: dude@auto.med.ohio-state.edu (Mark Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:49:59 GMT
Organization: Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University
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I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 onto my computer.
After I booted, I wanted to do some post installation steps.
I made the /usr/ports directory and copied over the links from the
second cdrom.
The problem with installing packages is that one cdrom has the binaries
and the other cd-rom contains make files.
When I select packages in the post installation, the /stand/sysinstall
program will attempt to install programs even if the wrong cd-rom is in.
For example, I select to install "lynx" and "netscape". Well, lynx gets
installed just fine, but netscape does not because it is on the second
cdrom in the ports subdirectory.
This is reall annoying. How am I to know which packages is on which cd
without manually listing the files on the cdroms?
Also, I couldn't get XFree86 to compile correctly. It would have been really
great if the binaries were pre-compiled. But, apparently they were not.
Bummer.
I am really impressed with the concepts behind the structure of FreeBSD,
but I don't want to have an operating system where the installation program
doesn't really work that well -- and I would like XFree86 to be pre-compiled.
I also was able to get netscape installed by putting in the second cd and
going to ports/www/netscape2 and typing in "make". Real easy. I would
just like not have to do it manually for ever single program.
Is it me, or what is going on?
Mark
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