From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 3:40: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA88437B6DA for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 03:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.50] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id sa230040 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:38:43 -0400 From: Walter Brameld To: Christopher Johnson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports tarball location Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:35:05 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00050406384301.01024@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 04 May 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Christopher Johnson wrote: > While setting up a friend's FreeBSD 4.0 machine, we didn't download the > ports collection as part of the install process (he's got some wierd > thing going with his Win98 partition[1]). I haven't been able to find the > tarball on the ftp site or any mention through the FAQ or handbook, could > someone post the location of the ports tarball? Boot FreeBSD and run /stand/sysinstall. Select 'Configure', 'Distributions' and 'Ports'. > > Chris Johnson > cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu > > [1] He's paranoid about disk space, and wants /usr/ports on the Win98 > partition. It's a shame, because the bare ports tree grows from 70MB to > nearly 1.5 GB, due to the 16K FAT32 minimum filesize. It's not really /ports that grows, but rather /ports/distfiles with the tarballs that are downloaded when doing installs. You can keep it trimmed down by deleting these files after your port install. I suppose you could link /ports/distfiles to a directory on your Windows slice. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message