From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 8 17:30: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332E937B40B for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f990Tq882536 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:29:53 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:29:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: getting the ports tree Reply-To: dan@langille.org Message-ID: <3BC20C95.15121.5E42836@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org IIRC, the handbook at one time or another contained instructions for installing the ports tree. Newbies need that. I looked tonight for those instructions. I failed to find them at the website under handbook/ports and under /ports. I hope I'm going blind because a step by step process would be nice to refer users to. Are they there? FWIW: I remember two methods: 1 - cvsup 2 - /stand/sysinstall -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message