From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 17 7:58:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D2837B784 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p13.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.13]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA35052; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:57:20 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA00302; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:42:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:42:13 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: David Johnson Cc: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" , newbi Subject: Re: ports ? In-Reply-To: <38A9CB86.491BBA50@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, David Johnson wrote: > "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" wrote: > > > > I try install the freebsd 3.4 and at the end it ask me about ports . should > > i just say no to all or what ? > > Yes, install it. Then look at the FreeBSD Handbook to understand how to > use it. Or say "No" to ports and live with packages, ready to go software from the package directory. Maybe its a "bad" way of using FreeBSD but I dont know why. Heiko -- ORBS SUX, see www.orbs.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message