From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Dec 21  7: 2: 4 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B408B14D71
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:02:01 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
Received: (from olli@localhost)
	by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09476
	for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:02:00 +0100 (CET)
	(envelope-from olli)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:02:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
Message-Id: <199912211502.QAA09476@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Does choosing "distribution" matter if one is going to "make world"?
Organization: Administration TU Clausthal
Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2]
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Markus Holmberg wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > Does choosing distribution (User, Developer, X-User etc) really matter
 > if one is going to cvsup sources and do a "make world"?
 > 
 > Isn't "make world" going to install everything anyway?

That's right.  Basically, you can just do a "minimal" install
(which will install only the bin distribution), the grab the
sources with cvsup, make world, and everything is there.

Although it's probably a good idea to at least install the man
pages initially, too.  Just in case you need to look at one
before your new world is installed.  ;-)

 > And last.. how does one change between these distribution sets after
 > install? (without using sysinstall.. there must be some underlying
 > mechanism?).

Well, /stand/sysinstall is probably easier, but...

You can easily install a distribution set manually, once your
system is up and running.  For example, to install the "games"
set, just download the games directory from an FTP site and run
the install.sh script which is included.  Most FTP servers
support tar-on-the-fly, so something like this works well:

# cd /tmp
# ftp ftpX.YY.freebsd.org
ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/xxx/i386/yyy
ftp> get games.tar "|tar xvf -"
ftp> quit
# cd games
# sh install.sh

Don't forget to remove the temporary stuff in /tmp afterwards,
of course.

Be _very_ careful if you re-install the "bin" distribution like
that!  It will overwrite several files in /etc, for example, it
will replace your passwd with one that contains _no_ password
for root!!!

Regards
   Oliver

-- 
Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)

"In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"
                                         (Terry Pratchett)


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message