From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 11:50:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB5B16A402 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joseph.koshy@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1E013C428 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joseph.koshy@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1188671wxc for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:50:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jMi0a/iLF+6Sd1HboSXWaSWx3FwJ7LJCk4YLpyAGXw9L4UhvJyjWs80qEz0T3uMH6orVPX7sBrpWZeB41Z4LFZRXYlXhY47KMqtac002/hYzhAy3xHaI8mZbRj9IZ915Hh5wKiuc3ee/Nq89xfKg2UfN0BJA6zrV+zE1FmXzeQU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Imy42Q1xh+/Jkdj1xfMtlLjoxcGQNLQTd2ms6ZMCqOYhZUxzygxphPh3fQV44ahrhRaVtpi6sMxzjvOsQrmLY6+PPRmh0KLO4Edf4F3ySw+qJ9cItGs5AlsmRQhGAmbJzhgfcR/PFxX0oVqW3UVNlUJ8h9Sg8se7oUZHruyqLHw= Received: by 10.114.183.1 with SMTP id g1mr916828waf.1173009010144; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.23.9 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:50:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84dead720703040350q70fcb66dice41c8ffc28388a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:20:09 +0530 From: "Joseph Koshy" To: "ajay gopalakrishnan" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <008101c75cf7$c990b550$0901a8c0@TWEETY> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:50:11 -0000 > 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