FreeBSD "Live" CD / Couple of other questions to get started

[clayton rollins]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 Freddie Cash <fcash at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>On June 28, 2003 11:04 am, clayton rollins wrote:
> > 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.
>
>90% of the programs available in the ports tree are also availble as
>pre-compiled packages.  To install them, just use "pkg_add -r <port
>name>" and it and all dependencies will be automatically downloaded and
>installed.  For more information read the pkg_add man page.
>
>You can also create your own packages from the ports tree by using "make
>package" instead of "make install".  For more info on the ports tree,
>read the man page.
>
>And, lastly, the package repository is on all FreeBSD ftp mirrors.
>Browse down to your preferred release, then check the packages
>directory.  :)
>

I was completely unaware of this; I had been checking out the various 
projects' sites to find executables... Thanks for pointing out and 
correcting my error.

(Thanks to the other user who also pointed it out, as I won't write a 
seperate email for that.)

Peace,
Clayton

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