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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:32:32 +0100
From:      Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Message-ID:  <42224A80.9010109@wanadoo.es>
In-Reply-To: <936195408.20050227152751@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <200502270835.07745.zettel@acm.org> <936195408.20050227152751@wanadoo.fr>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Leonard Zettel writes:
> 
> 
>>My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
>>ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
>>going with the binary packages.  I get the impression that many
>>port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port
>>versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise
>>to their packages.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, bugs in the handling of my SCSI disks prevent me from
> doing anything that is disk-intensive without crashing the system, so
> downloading the ports collection probably won't be possible.
> 

Anthony, I understand your frustration. I think you should fix the SCSI 
problems before doing anything. The ports collection really works very 
well. Perhaps some experts here can help you with your SCSI. I am a 
FreeBSD novice ;-)

Ramiro.




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