From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 29 13: 3:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8B4437B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:03:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2044 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2002 21:03:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Jan 2002 21:03:16 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:03:15 +0000 From: Matt H To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports on FreeBSD4.4 Message-Id: <20020129210315.4f8fc390.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020129185130.55FB137B404@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20020129132410.12323.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> <20020129185130.55FB137B404@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > This is my sole complaint with FreeBSD - nothing comes > > with the CD, one has to connect to the internet for > > everything from ports to upgrading. > > CD 1 has packages. 3 and 4 have even more. Take a look. > I have no idea what's on the CD's but you have to tell FreeBSD where to find the ports/packages to install anything by default ports are searched for in /usr/ports/distfiles so copy/moun/symlink the files into there and off you go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message