From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 9 14:44:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15865 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15855 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06228; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:43:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephane Raimbault cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which install? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > I've been installing FreeBSD and was wondering which install to do. I > would like to know which install you believ is best. I would like to be > able to use the latest version of netscape so I will need X. I've been > installing X-USER but I would like to learn how to create kernels and > tdo some other devolment things later but not soon. Could I install > X-USer and then install packages latter like the src for sys to create a > kernel? I will be installing via PPP so I don't have the luxury to > simply install right off the CD. Yes. I generally use the 'custom' path, but I've installed FreeBSD 20 times so I know what I'm after. :) With custom you can pick exactly which pieces you want, including the source. Or you can do it manually afterwards by fetching the src/ssys.* files off the CD or FTP site and running 'tar xzf ssys.*' from /usr/src. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo