From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 27 10:46:25 2002 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 CBC5F37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DA043E4A for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17jkPz-0002Lx-0U; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:46:19 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:46:04 +0100 To: Daniel Squire Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: ports References: <031f01c24df0$ca36bd30$3e00a8c0@bluebonnet> In-Reply-To: <031f01c24df0$ca36bd30$3e00a8c0@bluebonnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U 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 Someone, quite probably Daniel Squire, once wrote: >You can install from the disk as well.... > >from the prompt as 'root' type '/stand/sysinstall' ( minus quotes ). I don't >remember the menu path after that, but I think it's >pretty obvious when you look. You may need to burn all 4 disks to get what you >want. I don't know...haven't installed any ports from >disk in forever. Anyone else know the exact path? It goes something like: Configure -> Packages -> CD-ROM Then you select a group (i.e. sysutils) and then the ports (i.e. portupgrade) Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message