From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 14:22:24 2005 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 F392716A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:22:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postman.inteliport.com (postman.inteliport.com [208.27.31.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFC543D60 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:22:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colane@inteliport.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (ip39.inteliport.net [208.27.31.39]) by postman.inteliport.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j37EM8X28700 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:22:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4255421A.9070803@inteliport.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:22:18 -0400 From: Christopher Lane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Sysinstall + CVSup or just CVSup? 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, 07 Apr 2005 14:22:24 -0000 Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 using the minimum install option, and would like to immediately install the ports collection. What I've done in the past is sysinstall via ftp and then CVSup to update. Is that insane? Can I just CVSup and forget about the sysinstall? Is one method quicker than the other? Maybe there's a better method altogether... Chris