Installing packages from 9.2 Release DVD

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 06:35:31 UTC 2013


Dear All ,

In sysinstall , there are menu items to install packages from release DVD .

In bsdinstall , there is NO such package installation menu items .

Another problem is there is no any available information about this subject
in the Handbook installation pages ( at least I could not find any one one
) .

Is there any such available information link , and is there any possibility
to include such information into Handbook pages and Release Notes templates
?


When there is no such information , people will use

pkg_add -r ...

statement although many packages are already in the release DVD which means
a large waste of band width .

( Please consider less experienced people : Each year , many persons are
entering into an age to try FreeBSD without prior experience about FreeBSD
. Lack of necessary information about install is an important obstacle for
such new entries . )




Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk


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