From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 9:44:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8A737B407 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.119.162] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 15xA5x-00029A-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:44:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9QGoH507184; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:50:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:50:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: PetBuilder Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Adding Ports Collection In-Reply-To: <000c01c15e2e$fadfebd0$77a44a42@home> Message-ID: <20011026124841.S1929-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, PetBuilder wrote: > If we did a munimum install and did not add the ports collection during the install, how would we go about adding the ports collection after the system is running? > > This is on a machine we first setup. I now install it with every new install, but I need to add it to the older machine. > > Thanks, Hi Craig, There are several ways to do this. My favourite is to become the superuser and: /stand/sysinstall Configure Distributions ports Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message