Configuring FreeBSD 4.9 on a new system (was: FreeBSD Newbie...)

[Fabian Keil]

"John Dworske" <jdworske at hotmail.com> wrote:

>    Help me...yeah...OK...so here it goes...I am brand new to
>    FreeBSD...installed OS onto a box from
>    a set of floppies I got off the net...
> 
>    Last login: Wed May  3 14:37:21 2006 from 10.10.20.20
>    Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>            The Regents of the University of California.  All rights
>    reserved.
> 
>    FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003
> 
>    Wondering what I need to update my system to make sure it has
>    everything I need to do work...like want to setup a slave DNS server
>    and apache webserver for starters...

How about replacing it with FreeBSD 6.1 first?

Bind is part of the base system, and Apache part of the ports
collection. While this is true for FreeBSD 4.9 as well, you
shouldn't use such an old release unless you have a reason.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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