From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 2 12:57:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF540154BE for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Message-ID: <19991102143215.48192@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:32:15 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: nakins@arkansas.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what ports are needed? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <381F47B8.3AB7@arkansas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <381F47B8.3AB7@arkansas.net>; from noel akins on Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:21:12PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 2 November 1999 at 14:21:12 -0600, noel akins wrote: > Hello, > I've bought a FreeBSD 3.2 cd set with a book. Will be getting it in a > day or so by ups. I hope you got it for a good price. 3.2 is an old version; the current version is 3.3. > There are over 2000 ports on these cd's. And, I don't know what I > absolutly have to have. I want to install Apache/PHP/MySQL. I know > I need an editor and X11, minicom, and some support files or > libraries for the things I ve mentioned. I would like to add an ftp > and irc client too. I want to hook my mac up to my FBSD box to > simulate a web enivorment. > > Do I need to add some kind of ppp, dhcp or tcp/ip stuff? You'll need at least TCP/IP if you want to talk to another machine. I don't know too much what your Mac will expect, though. Most of the ports are on the CD-ROMs. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message