From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 17:37:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CE416A4E2 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A16C43D55 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mailspool2.panix.com (mailspool2.panix.com [166.84.1.79]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DE313A867 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (pool-71-247-91-97.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.247.91.97]) by mailspool2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A67BC12242 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B3E1AD.3080409@tania.servebbs.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:36:45 -0400 From: Bob User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060628) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=B2BF9879 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Producing a binary install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First I would like to thank all of you who helped me out on my "Java-Hell" issue. I now have a working native jdk.1.4.2. It took a bit of doing, and many hours of compile time, but it finally worked. It did bomb once, about 4 hours into the compile, and demanded I do a kldload linprocfs, followed by a mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc, claiming it needed a proc fs to compile. I assume this was needed for the compile-time, and not for the run-time??? Anyway, java now works in all browsers. My next task here is to upgrade another workstation to freebsd. The woman I live with wants to dump her Linux, and have what I have as well :-) My question: I will be installing her machine mainly from pre-compiled packages, as it is not a dual-processor fast box like mine is. Java, and other packages are not available in pre-compiled form. Since I already compiled Java, is there a way to produce a binary-install on my machine, and install it on her machine? Simply tar up the dir perhaps? We have limited bandwidth (DSL) and so it would make sense to do a basic install for her over the net, and then do the rest of the install locally from stuff I compiled. Not everything, just BIG stuff like Java, KDE, Gnome the browsers.... TIA Bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEs+GtAexE5bK/mHkRAqpiAJwIDYlW/g7TZ2Pblqbd7kYzmkaY/gCfeIlC cxlwgJmZjhJcfFFk/FAXgcw= =wN9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----