Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:20:09 +0530 From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: "ajay gopalakrishnan" <geek.dwells@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ? Message-ID: <84dead720703040350q70fcb66dice41c8ffc28388a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b8c16adc0703040200m5ed43016pad8677b5a3f2fac2@mail.gmail.com> References: <b8c16adc0703020945n6b2f2006v4900273c58358f76@mail.gmail.com> <008101c75cf7$c990b550$0901a8c0@TWEETY> <b8c16adc0703040200m5ed43016pad8677b5a3f2fac2@mail.gmail.com>
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> Further, after installation how should i ensure that all the > required kernel sources are installed? You want the sources to the complete system, not just the "kernel", and you would want to keep these upto-date too. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html and, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > Is there any way by which i can install a specific > package from from CD and let the OS determine and > install all the dependencies automatically? Is > there any command for this like we have apt-get in debian? 'pkg_add' should be installing dependencies automatically. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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