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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ix.netcom.com!news.enteract.com!news.inetnebr.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!polo.iquest.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 22:36:20 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 55 Message-ID: <32A51BE4.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <57hrfn$jbm@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Mark Nielsen <dude@auto.med.ohio-state.edu> CC: nielsen.7@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu Mark Nielsen wrote: > The problem with installing packages is that one cdrom has the binaries > and the other cd-rom contains make files. Your confusion stems from the fact that ports and packages actually have nothing (from the end-user point of view, anyway) to do with one another and are entirely independant. If you want to install packages with /stand/sysinstall, put the first CDROM in. If you want to use the ports link tree, use the second CDROM. > For example, I select to install "lynx" and "netscape". Well, lynx gets > installed just fine, but netscape does not because it is on the second > cdrom in the ports subdirectory. No, it's actually technically in neither location - netscape is commercial software and hence not on the CDs (that would get us sued very quickly). All the ports collection version does is fetch it off the net, as is the case for many other ports. > Also, I couldn't get XFree86 to compile correctly. It would have been really > great if the binaries were pre-compiled. But, apparently they were not. > Bummer. They are. What do you think the XF86312 directory contains? > > but I don't want to have an operating system where the installation program > doesn't really work that well -- and I would like XFree86 to be pre-compiled. IT IS. LOOK AGAIN. :-( > I also was able to get netscape installed by putting in the second cd and > going to ports/www/netscape2 and typing in "make". Real easy. I would > just like not have to do it manually for ever single program. That's exactly how it's supposed to work though. For many programs which are legally embargoed from CDROM usage, that's EXACTLY what you have to do. Don't blame us, blame those who would put restrictive licenses on software which should probably be free so as to more quickly gather market share. > Is it me, or what is going on? It's you. :-) I recommend reading http://www.freebsd.org/handbook for more information on how both ports and packages work. P.S. You really ought to set your Reply-To if you're going to post from an account which can't be replied to. Such is only proper etiquette since many don't have time to go scanning through your message body for the correct address. That is what Reply-To is for. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project