Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:55:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Leonard Ong <Leonard_Ong@iname.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setup and installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808191149180.27190-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000e01bdcb08$f2b58080$62069aca@ZhugeLiang.ong.net.id>
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Leonard Ong wrote: > 1) Is it true that there is indicator meter that shows you how much in > size for packages you have selected before installing them ? To > prevent the possibility selecting packages with size > total space > available ? AFAIK, no such information is stored in the current package format. It's been discussed as an option, and I'd wholeheartedly back such an improvement. > 2) I see that many of basic / most needed utils like X window and WM > is not dependable, and we have to config everything manually. Is this > true ? Under linux distribution though they are not doing 100 % for us, > but they simplify things by using default script What flavor of Linux? You can't get away with just saying 'Linux' anymore! XFree86 is a sticky case since PC hardware varies so widely. Window managers generally _do_ give you a decent stock configuration file, although it may be in /root/ or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<windowmanager>. Most other system software does have a sample script you can work from -- look for [configfile].sample in the same directory as the program's standard config file. If you think there should be a sample where there isn't, by all means file a PR on it and provide one! > 3) I don't want to install all sources, but kernel only. How much space i > need for installing kernel sources and under which package name ? I > need to build my own kernel. My calculations show ~28MB, although that's high since this system has kernels for three different config files built on it. :) Try to do _that_ under most Linux flavors! > 4) When I want to mount_ext2fs, it said ext2 filesystem not available. What > does it mean ? You need to build a new kernel with options EXT2FS In the config file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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