Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:40:15 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'cjclark@home.com'" <cjclark@home.com>, dorian@lara.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.2 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BE6@site2s1>
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I think he actually means packages not ports, and I thought those were shipped on the cd-roms as well. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [SMTP:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:46 AM > To: dorian@lara.on.ca > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 > > dorian wrote, > > Hey. Does FreeBSD 3.2 from Walnut Creek come with the entire ports > > collection? > > I assume you mean the distfiles. _Almost_ all do, but due to licensing > issues there might be a few that cannot be included with the CDs. More > often however, distfiles can become obsolete by the time the CDs are > actually reaching customers. But the distfiles on the CDs and the > Makefiles in the /usr/ports directories should be in sync. > > > Can these be installed from the install program? > > Ports are typically added by changing to the port's directory in > /usr/ports and then just typing 'make install'. You will need to do > this as super-user. See ports(7). > > > When you > > first boot up, what wm is installed by default the first time you login? > > This is not really directly related to FreeBSD, but rather to what > XFree86 uses as a default window manager. It is twm(1). > > > Can you tell me of some laptops you know work with FreeBSD 3.2? > > I would expect just about any Intel-based laptop would 'work' just > fine... However, people often have trouble with the exotic video cards > and have trouble getting X to run. Also, PCMIA cards are a known sore > point, so you might have trouble getting all of your peripherial > devices to work. > > Sorry, I've never found laptops to useful and have no experience > using them with FreeBSD. I have computers at the office and a computer > at home, and with a dedicated Internet connection at both locations, I > can freely exchange info between them all. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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