From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 1:21:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB0B737B53C for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 60995 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Mar 2000 09:21:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:21:15 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: howto do ftp download of pkgs after floppy install? Message-ID: <20000320012115.D60597@kearneys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 06:08:12PM +0100, A. L. Meyers wrote: > After doing a floppy install of everything installable this way on a > Toshiba T4850CT notebook and after getting ppp to work (thanks to the > pedantic primer, 7 kudos), how can I connect to the ftp site to download > additional packages? >=20 I've never done a floppy install, so maybe 'fetch' isn't installed - but in case it is (it should be! then again, it's pretty surprising that 'ftp' isn't...), thats probably your best bet. Note: hopefully=20 you were able to install the ports tree, an essential aspect of a major=20 advantage of FreeBSD. If you did, then to install say, bash, you would=20 do: cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 ; make install That should automatically download and install what you need. Also, check out /stand/sysinstall. -Brent --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Jm9vSXWJ+Wtq33uP0BwJeX6UYcJvCzNU iQA/AwUBONXtif5LgQMksPsjEQInHACgogKiQeD+b0x2Af0vbXd6cDiZHssAoIs+ aKWnft4KMg/sVWeOB9qwa+Ni =1FHE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fXStkuK2IQBfcDe+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message