From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 21:35:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA07442 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07437 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I3TGHIJIFK002W6H@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:34:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: Installing over Internet To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I3TGHIK1QA002W6H@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org",ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith says: >-STABLE is a state of the souce tree, not a RELEASE or a SNAP. So >there aren't any files to FTP. You have to install 2.1-RELEASE, sup the >sources to 2.1-STABLE and build the 'world'. There should be instructions >on this in the handbook. Michael, thank you very much. There are some instructions in the handbook. I installed 2.1R by FTP and got the sup package as well as others and got it all installed and running. There's a sample sup file for STABLE, which seems suited to what I want to do. However the sample sup file for ports looks as if it gets sources for all ports. I am wondering whether I need to get the sources for the ports/packages that I have installed and get these rebuilt as well as everything else in the "make world" process, in order for them to run? Annelise -- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[