From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 13 21:41:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20DC106564A for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCDD8FC15 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1DLeuLr019218 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:40:57 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q1DLeuLr019218 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1329169257; bh=doypnrH/JaZCE0RruZH8hCDU0yqn4S2OfbTy8F5lGv0=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=vawhsWQF3Oj7KhAOwkuNi78Nfx3JMcPoBIW0eH4t7TEWzrtnMTfP/VDGjVictytox oO9uUSdwSPGerKZwTWWxT78on36rTuak+iOZlacV/tWwuMga+LPyvpZJhNdkBTkdyP RyuNGhVJWVNexCThQW9Y/80q/T7bifGWz/IrLnkQ= Message-ID: <4F39835C.2090604@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:40:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1329163260.2566.0.camel@arifLaptop> In-Reply-To: <1329163260.2566.0.camel@arifLaptop> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF850BEC05994B3E56DC80F00" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: Installing Gnome and Xorg from installation DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:41:08 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF850BEC05994B3E56DC80F00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 13/02/2012 20:01, Arif Hossain wrote: > 1. I have got Installation dvd for freebsd 9.0. I've succesfully > installed it in vmware. Now i want to install the packages included in > the dvd. Somehow or the other sysinstall can not mount the dvd. So i > manually mounted it in /mnt and copied the /package folder into > my /root. Now what should i do to install a working gnome2 desktop? if = i > give something like pkg_add -vn *, it reports several missing > dependencies. So how should i install it properly without downloading > anything? Set PKG_PATH in your environment. See pkg_add(1) for details. >=20 > 2. I want to see codes for the base system. During installation i've > selected "source" to be installed. there are sources for "some" package= s > in /usr/source but for some i see only Makefiles. How to get these othe= r > sources? That's intentional. You can find the missing sources under /usr/src/contrib, /usr/src/crypto > 3. I alway use git and svn. and i'm not looking forward to learn cvs. I= > want my "base" system source tree to be updated through svn. Now does > the sources included in dvd is tracked by svn or cvs? i mean to get the= > latest development snapshot for the "base" system should i have to do > something more or i just can do "svn update"? Base system is svn now, although it's exported to cvs as well for backwards compatibility. http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer > 4. I'm a old linux user, this is infact my first bsd installation but > i'm loving the "way of bsd". Its a wonderful=20 Yuo. 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