Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:49:01 -0500 From: Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What comes on the cd distribution? Message-ID: <19981230144901.C8558@home> In-Reply-To: <001801be3423$62890840$ba96d0d1@birch.ogurok.com>; from Oleg Ogurok on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:36:58PM -0500 References: <001801be3423$62890840$ba96d0d1@birch.ogurok.com>
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Hello, I am new to FreeBSD, although I have been using Linux for a little over 2 years. I installed it after reading a comparison between Linux and FreeBSD on www.linuxworld.com. I currently use Debian/GNU Linux. I would like to ask a couple of questions: 1. Is there any special reason the ``core'' packages (bin, manpages) are split up into ~240,000 byte sections? Why not floppy sized sections, or some other size? 2. Can FreeBSD continue where it left off when installing/upgrading over an intermitant network? My (free) ISP hangs up after an hour. That and I use a 14.4 modem. It's not as bad as it sounds. I use cron or at jobs, wget, and some simple shell scripts to automate downloading while I sleep. 3. Does the source code and ports collection come on a typical FreeBSD cd? 4. Is the ports collection available in a big gzip'd tarball, instead of having to retrieve it one file and directory at a time? I tried get ports.tar.gz in FTP, which didn't work, although get ports.tar did. 5. When I installed a few packages (precomiled), They were installed un the /usr/local hierarchy. Some package info was also stored in /var/db/package-name. Is this db info used by any package tools or anything? sysinstall didn't seem to know I had already installed some packages. Thanks for taking the time to help. -- Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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