From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 00:28:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8306E37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from grunt21.ihug.com.au (grunt21.ihug.com.au [203.109.249.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA2B43F3F for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@jmv.com.au) Received: from p8-max1.syd.ihug.com.au (localhost) [203.173.155.8] by grunt21.ihug.com.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19105B-0003o1-00; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:28:26 +1000 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:20:59 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: John Vender To: "Sukhbinder Singh" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <3362233E-65AD-11D7-B695-00039369D83A@jmv.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distribution installations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:28:28 -0000 On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 03:06 PM, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone explain, how can I install more distribution into a > running freebsd from the root directory. for example if my initial > freebsd installation was only customed to install the bin (required) > distribution only, how can I install other distributions like the games > distribution, the man distribution, the crypto distribution and etc. > > thanks, You should be able to add to your installation using sysinstall. First start your modem connection loggen in as root. Then do the the following #/stand/sysinstall from the main menu select Upgrade an existing system press enter when you get the message "First, you must select some distribution components. ..." on the next screen select the option Custom by highlighting it and pressing space bar the next screen should show a list of available distributions, highlight those you wish to install and press space bar to select them after you've done this press enter which will return you to the Choose Distributions screen. Press enter again to get to a confirmation question. I'm using an old version of FreeBSD here to check this so I hope this is still valid. If this isn't right hopefully someone else will correct it. Cheers...John