From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 9:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copper.singnet.com.sg (smtp2.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B026A37BE0A for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:38:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from theebh@magix.com.sg) Received: from pc38 (ad202.166.38.149.magix.com.sg [202.166.38.149]) by copper.singnet.com.sg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA18065; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:38:17 +0800 (SGT) From: "Boon Hoo" To: , "Boon Hoo" Cc: Subject: RE: Problem installing ports Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:39:17 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <38B55D18.2DED2797@math.udel.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, thanks for your informative reply. > -----Original Message----- > From: schwenk@math.udel.edu [mailto:schwenk@math.udel.edu] > > The ISO image has none or few of the 'distfiles' needed to build the > ports. You pretty much need Internet access to build ports for 4.0, > which isn't considered the beginner's version. You should either buy a > set of CDs from Walnut Creek CDROM (recommended!) or download the > 3.4-Release ISO and get Internet access. > I checked the cd-rom that i burned from the ISO image, and the "ports" directory contains a package.tgz file. Perhaps i should unzip it? Btw, what is the difference between the files in the 'ports/distfiles' directory and the 'ports/i386/packages' directory (as seen on ftp.freebsd.org)? > FreeBSD (and the other BSD UNIX(TM)es) use simpler startup scripts, > mostly in the /etc directory. See /etc/rc and /etc/rc.* scripts. > There's also /etc/defaults/rc.conf (default startup parameters) and > /etc/rc.conf (local custom startup parameters) config files that the > startup scripts use to guide startup behaviour. > It seems Linux's way of organising startup files is easier(but then again, i haven't really use freebsd much yet). For e.g., i notice that by default freebsd starts the sendmail daemon after installation. Where should i look for to disable sendmail from starting? In linux, it's just changing a 'S' to 'K'... P.S: Coming from linux background, it sure takes some time for me to adapt to a new OS. Something like "migrating from linux" faq (as seen on OpenBSD site) would be excellent:) Thanks in advance, Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message