From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 5:55:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F7E37B405 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 05:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g4DCsoU03752; Mon, 13 May 2002 08:54:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDFB8E1.9080904@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:00:17 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stanley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports References: <3CDF4317.5D8356B4@cyberec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Stanley wrote: > Dear FreeBSD users, > > I am a new user to the FreeBSD system. I want to know if I choose those > packages or ports during my first installation process. The packages > will then be installed then , no further installation needed? Is that > ture ? Please advise http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html If, after thoroughly reading this section, you are still confused, please resubmit your question. It appears that you don't fully understand what packages and ports are, and this section of the handbook does an excellent job of explaining it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message