From owner-freebsd-install Mon Jan 1 17:16:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-install Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19540 for install-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19535 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA02663; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:47:00 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601020117.LAA02663@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FTP Install To: deasey@server1.netpath.net (Geoffrey Deasey) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:46:59 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-install@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Geoffrey Deasey" at Dec 30, 95 07:31:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-install@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Geoffrey Deasey stands accused of saying: > > I was wondering, I was told that the FTP install does not create the > ports directory tree. Is there a way to install things like audio, fvwm, > etc. during the install ? So you don't have to compile them ? Doing the > make under the ports tee takes a fairly long period of time and resources. You don't have to compile them anyway; you can FTP the packages and use pkg_add to install them. Look in the packages directory on any FreeBSD mirror site. > --Jeff -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[