Star FreeBSD 6.2 Beta-1 Available
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Sep 2006 01:33 UTC
FreeBSD The first Beta build for the FreeBSD-6.2 Release Cycle is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. If the release cycle goes as planned it is the first of two BETAs, which will be followed by two Release Candidates (RCs) and then the final release.
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RE: Why the thumbs down on 5.x?
by antik on Thu 21st Sep 2006 14:25 UTC in reply to "Why the thumbs down on 5.x?"
antik
Member since:
2006-05-19

1 - what are the system directories, what are the user directories, and what are the application directories?

% man hier

2 - what is the difference between bin and sbin?

% man hier

3 - is there a specific directory I need to be in to download source from svn or copy a .tar.gz file to extract?

% man hier
# cvsup -h cvsup.freebsd.org /usr/local/share/example/cvsu/ports-supfile
# cd /usr/ports
# make search name=yourfavoriteapp
# cd /usr/ports/yourfavoriteapp
# make install clean

4 - get Bash as my default shell

# pkg_add -r bash
# man chsh

5 - what is the best way to create and mount partitions?

# sysinstall

6 - now that I have installed Vista RC1 how do I get my boot option to show so I can boot into FreeBSD again?

Just install FreeBSD bootloader- it can boot any operating system without any configuration change.

# boot0cfg -B ad0

Edited 2006-09-21 14:35

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GMFlash Member since:
2006-06-30

No need to use cvsup to update your ports tree anymore. FreeBSD 6.x has a nice util called portsnap that comes with it.

The very first time you run it you have to overwrite your entire ports tree:
portsnap fetch && portsnap extract


After that you run it by doing:
portsnap fetch && portsnap update


MUCH easier and faster than cvsup.

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antik Member since:
2006-05-19

MUCH easier and faster than cvsup.

If you think that cvsup is slow then try csup- written in plain C and works faster. I personally don't like portsnap- too easy to break ports consistency.

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Thomas2005 Member since:
2005-11-07

Thank you for the information.

I have done the make install clean and pkg_add but I was having problems with svn. I need the PDFKit framework and the System Preferences downloaded before I can compile GWorkspace and I wasn't sure where I needed to be. My main goal is to get GNUstep up and running so I can start developing in it since it is very similar to Cocoa in OS X.

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