installation without /usr/local/etc?

George Fazio gfazio at n3gqf.us
Wed Nov 8 00:59:55 UTC 2006


On Tue November 7 2006 16:18, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Trying to learn more about FBSD I decided to use an old box of mine (PII 
> 200, 128 RAM, 17GB HD) to install FBSD-6.1 on it.
> 
> My question is whether it is normal that after installation I do not have 
> /usr/local/etc (just /usr/local)?
> 
> I couldn't use the web to install the OS so I made use of the iso cd. I 
> tried minimal install first, then full binaries and sources and yet 
> although the installation process ended up without any error message, no 
> /usr/local/etc.
> 
> It is nothing serious - I was going to use that box only to experiment 
> with certain things and see their effect before I deploy them on a 
> production system but if there is something obvious that I am missing, 
> many thanks in advance for sharing!
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
I am fairly certain that the subdirectories will be created as you install 
ports/packages as my system came out of the base install the same way, but 
now has the directories after installing ports.

George


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