Instant-workstation is missing

Andrew arf at iweb.net.au
Sun Nov 9 14:18:19 PST 2003


Sorry your correct it is version 5.1

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find 
>>all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought.
>>i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them
>>This gouies for instant-workstation
> 
> 
> Hmmm... It seems you've gone astray in time.  FreeBSD 5.2 has yet to
> be released.  See
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/schedule.html
> 
> Perhaps you mean 5.1 ?
> 
> You won't find all possible packages on the CD Rom set as there's
> simply far too much stuff to fit onto the CDs.
> 
> Your best bet is to install the cvsup-without-gui package:
> 
>     # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> 
> then use cvsup to pull down the latest version of the ports tree and
> install via ports.  This will have been updated since 5.1 was
> released, in order to take account of updates to the dependent
> packages. See:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
> 
> Then:
> 
>     # cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-server
>     # make install
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew	
> 
> 




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