From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 10:16:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6218537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5D743FE5 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:1835 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19X2GB-0004UC-6C; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:16:11 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:03:19 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NQS4QCGH; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:04:22 -0700 From: Johnson David To: clayton rollins , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:15:20 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306301015.21148.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19X2GB-0004UC-6C*iQT/YwaGM76* Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-99.8 required=2.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL, USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Subject: Re: FreeBSD "Live" CD / Couple of other questions to get started X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:16:26 -0000 On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:04 am, clayton rollins wrote: > As a side note, I've only found one program that was available > precompiled on bsd (I don't remember which one...), which makes the > answer to this very short; they are available, but good luck finding > them. Some of the more "essential" ports are available as packages. These can be found on CDs 1, 3 and 4 of the official CD distribution. More current ones can also be found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/ (use a mirror). David