Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:31:54 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Sidney@FreeBSD.ORG, Brooks@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111240326130.16902-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <B0013283035@mailsite.vtc.net>
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have played with linux fo several years, but just tried Free BSD. > > > 4. Since I have a big disk, I tried to load everything, but eventually the installation process froze. I then installed average user with X. Have others had this problem? What you want with a big disk is developer with X, which gives you sources for everything in the base system. You also want ports and linux binary support. What you don't want is Packages > All. There are about 1800 third-party software packages on the installation CD-ROM (or available from FTP) and you wouldn't want all of them, e.g., multiple versions of Netscape, software applications in several foreign languages, etc. I'm not sure how much space this would take and what conflicts might result that you'd have to resolve during the process. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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