First time 5.1 install
Trey Sizemore
trey at fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 25 10:41:03 PST 2003
Doing a first time install of 5.1. The ports packages look comprehensive
and very up-to-date. I'm coming from the linux world, having used it
exclusively for the past year. I have the manual and will certainly read
it before perfoming the install to hopefully make the process easier.
I found the following in a FreeBSD article post and wanted any comments
from users who had done a number of installs as to the logic/soundness of
following the steps outlined below:
Install a minimal base system and the ports collection.
Install and configure cvsup and portupgrade.
Update your source tree and ports tree.
Make buildworld, kernel, installworld. Run portupgrade -a.
Reboot your nice, clean, up-to-date system and start installing apps you
want to use.
Does this make sense? Any additional steps and is the ordering of the
steps sound?
Thanks for your feedback.
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Trey Sizemore
trey at fastmail.fm
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