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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What should I download? Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:59:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5cu4ib$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ttv.854568859@winternet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34898 ttv@winternet.com (Thomas T Veldhouse) wrote: > I am planning to put FreeBSD on my system tomorrow. I need to know what (Tomorrow's already over...) > packages to download overnight. I have looked in the 2.1.6 packages > directory and it seems that I can download most everything except the > Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stuff - which I don't need. However, I Hmpf? That must be XFree86 already, ain't it? > have been looking at the X11 stuff and I don't see the servers (SVGA in > particular) listed in the packages. Should I download that from one of > the other directories in the tree (X11R6) and if so, where should I put > this if I am going to install from a DOS partition? I would like to > download as much as possible to get this up and running with a minimal of > post install effort. The XServers are in separate packages. All the X11 stuff starts with XF, and btw. should be named identical to Linux. It's the same vendor. > Please, any guidance would be helpful. I have read as much of the > documentation online as I can find (README.TXT, INSTALL.TXT and manual > stuff). Perhaps it's best to just boot the installation floppy, and read the documentation there. It has a detailed help where to put the stuff on your DOS partition. Basically, you need the bin/bin.* files, and it's also recommendable to select the doc/* files and at least src/ssys.* (the kernel source code). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)