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  20. Using Ports- Freebsd 6.1 (n00b Question)

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    Posted · Edited by Carnevil

    #cd /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird

    #make install clean

    or if you want to use packages

    #pkg_add -r thunderbird

    #cd /usr/ports/printing/cups

    #make install clean

    it also has a package.

    #pkg_add -r cups

    Here's a great website for looking up ports. http://www.freshports.org/

    Using make install clean will install the program as well as clean up what's left over.

    One other thing I forgot to add is you should install portupgrade before anything else. This will give you access to two things that are needed after you update your ports tree. portsdb and pkgdb It'll also give you the portupgrade tool for upgrading your ports.

    #cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade

    #make install clean

    Also remember you only need to run portsnap fetch and portsnap extract the first time you update your ports tree. After that you only need to run the command portsnap fetch update. I usually run portsnap fetch update every few days.

    Here's the commands I use for updating the ports tree.

    #portsnap fetch update

    after that is done

    #portsdb -u this will up date your ports database

    #pkgdb -F this will check for any problems in the package database.

    Here's a pretty decent article on portupgrade http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28...ics.html?page=1 The only problem with the article is it talks about using cvsup instead of portsnap.

  21. Free Bsd 6.1, Dual Boot Help

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    Posted · Edited by Carnevil

    I usually use the FreeBSD boot loader but I did a little reading from FreeBSD 6 Unleased.

    If you're running Linux and want to boot FreeBSD from Linux's LILO loader, it is fairly easy to do so. In Linux, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf and add the following lines:

    other=/dev/hda2

    table=/dev/hda

    label=FreeBSD

    Change the line beginning with other= to reflect whatever device name Linux uses to identify your FreeBSD drive. (Remember, Linux's device names, including hard drive names, are significantly different from FreeBSD's naming convention.)

    After you have changed the configuration file, reinstall LILO by typing lilo as the root user.

    So your conf file should be right on since you're using scsi.