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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
Date: 28 Nov 1996 23:03:47 GMT
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dude@auto.med.ohio-state.edu (Mark Nielsen) wrote:

> 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.

[problem that the ports structure is on one and the distfiles are
on another CD-ROM]

Well, they used to be on the same disk, but right before 2.1.5 got
ready, Jordan noticed that the space on the first disk ran out, and he
gotta move the /usr/ports hierarchy over to the second disk.  So now,
you (apparently?  obviously? :) can't really symlink this tree to your
disk but must _copy_ it over.  That's not as big a deal as it seems on
the first glance, the entire /usr/ports tree consumes about 30 MB or
so.  It contains only the Makefiles, package files, and patches if any
are required.

Alternatively, see which ports you really wanna build, move their
distfiles over to your harddisk (temporarily), and make
/usr/ports/distfiles point to this directory.

> 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.

Apparently?  I'm sure you haven't looked hard enough.  Except those
who are really doing XFree86 development/testing, certainly almost
everybody prefers installing their binary packages, and heck!, they
_are_ on the CD-ROM.  You can even install them from inside
sysinstall.

> 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.

Well, Netcrap doesn't (cannot) come with a distfile at all, so the
`port' is just a wrapper only that fetches the tarball from Netscape's
home site.  Of course, you can also do it for all the other ports, and
their respective distfiles will be fetched across the Internet.  OTOH,
moving over the distfile from the other CD is probably faster. ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)