From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 8 00:59:55 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 34B3416A584 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gfazio@n3gqf.us) Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (alnrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.225.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AC243D60 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gfazio@n3gqf.us) Received: from mail.lunaticcafe.us ([68.54.140.166]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20061108005950b12007opdde>; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:59:50 +0000 Received: from gf-duron.lunaticcafe.us (gf-duron.lunaticcafe.us [10.42.69.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gfazio) by mail.lunaticcafe.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66B3B241B for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 20:00:01 -0500 (EST) From: George Fazio To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:59:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611071959.53427.gfazio@n3gqf.us> Subject: Re: installation without /usr/local/etc? 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: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:59:55 -0000 On Tue November 7 2006 16:18, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to learn more about FBSD I decided to use an old box of mine (PII > 200, 128 RAM, 17GB HD) to install FBSD-6.1 on it. > > My question is whether it is normal that after installation I do not have > /usr/local/etc (just /usr/local)? > > I couldn't use the web to install the OS so I made use of the iso cd. I > tried minimal install first, then full binaries and sources and yet > although the installation process ended up without any error message, no > /usr/local/etc. > > It is nothing serious - I was going to use that box only to experiment > with certain things and see their effect before I deploy them on a > production system but if there is something obvious that I am missing, > many thanks in advance for sharing! > > Warm regards, > I am fairly certain that the subdirectories will be created as you install ports/packages as my system came out of the base install the same way, but now has the directories after installing ports. George