FreeBSD "Live" CD / Couple of other questions to get started
clayton rollins
crollins666 at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 28 11:04:49 PDT 2003
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 Geoffrey Lane <freeballer at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>first, I have seen information on how-to create a live freebsd cd from an
>existing OS but no links to download an already made copy based on the new
>v5.1 OS. I was hoping someone could lead me to the right site where I can
>download it to be able to try it out before I install it, or is there a
>reason why someone cannot distribute them other than the customization of
>this CD?
>
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html .
Chooose your mirror and grab the disc 2 image from the proper directory.
>I've noticed a site or two with "ports" of popular linux programs but they
>seem to be sources that need compiling. As with Redhat or debian with .rpm
>and .deb are there precompiled packages for FreeBSD?
>
I've seen/heard of precompiled packages, but A. don't trust them and B.
don't need them. (though you may...) Once installed, FreeBSD has a wonderful
thing called the ports collection, which eliminates much of the work done by
the user in compiling programs. (To me, using an executable built for my
machine is preferable to using one built by someone else; it's part of the
reason I want a built-in compiler to begin with.) See here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html for a
more complete discussion of this. Generally, you can install a port by
simply doing make && make install in the port directory; it will download,
verify, compile, and install the program.
As a side note, I've only found one program that was available precompiled
on bsd (I don't remember which one...), which makes the answer to this very
short; they are available, but good luck finding them.
>And other than this mailing list are there any other sites or lists to get
>help for newbies?
That's kind of a catch-22. This list itself is not for newbie support, it's
more for newbies to chat. (The idea of 'newbie support' is kind of an
oxymoron in itself. You should want advice from people with as much skill as
possible.) Technical assistance is available from -questions. For newbie
help, the http://www.FreeBSD.org/ site is your best friend; 9 out of 10
newbie questions are answered in the documentation there. The handbook,
etc., are available there.
If you can't find it in the documentation, another good place to look is
google. Specifically,
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&group=mailing.freebsd.questions
, which is a very good archive, and http://www.google.com/bsd .
I'm sure you'll like FreeBSD, (everyone does)
Peace,
Clayton
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