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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What should I download?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:59:55 GMT
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ttv@winternet.com (Thomas T Veldhouse) wrote:

> I am planning to put FreeBSD on my system tomorrow.  I need to know what

(Tomorrow's already over...)

> packages to download overnight.  I have looked in the 2.1.6 packages
> directory and it seems that I can download most everything except the
> Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stuff - which I don't need.  However, I

Hmpf?  That must be XFree86 already, ain't it?

> have been looking at the X11 stuff and I don't see the servers (SVGA in
> particular) listed in the packages.  Should I download that from one of
> the other directories in the tree (X11R6) and if so, where should I put 
> this if I am going to install from a DOS partition?  I would like to 
> download as much as possible to get this up and running with a minimal of 
> post install effort.

The XServers are in separate packages.  All the X11 stuff starts with
XF, and btw. should be named identical to Linux.  It's the same
vendor.

> Please, any guidance would be helpful.  I have read as much of the 
> documentation online as I can find (README.TXT, INSTALL.TXT and manual 
> stuff).

Perhaps it's best to just boot the installation floppy, and read the
documentation there.  It has a detailed help where to put the stuff on
your DOS partition.

Basically, you need the bin/bin.* files, and it's also recommendable
to select the doc/* files and at least src/ssys.* (the kernel source
code).

-- 
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. ;-)