Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer

From: DK (asdzxc111_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/04

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To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

    --- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
    > > - Installing Packages is nice & easy & straight forward from the
    > docs(should be more of these!)
    > > - Installing ports/packages via ftp/net - Forget it!!
    > > I have barely got BSD running, the last thing I want is connecting a BSD
    > > box to my broadband
    > > connection ?? Does BSD have a default firewall ?? Don't know, having
    > > trouble installing stuff let
    > > alone configuring a firewall via scripts/files
    >
    > You are probably better off and more secure with an initial install, with
    > no additional work or tweaking, of FreeBSD on the net than you would be
    > with a MS system with every know "fix" available. The system is
    > inherently more secure and in addition - and maybe partially because of
    > this - fewer, by far, attempts at cracking FreeBSD are made than are
    > made against MS systems. Some of this is, of course, because there are
    > much fewer FreeBSD systems out there to tempt kiddies. But, the fact
    > that cracking FreeBSD is more difficult contributes to this effect.

    So if I do a default install of FreeBSD & then connect to the net for
    ports/packages, is there a default firewall running in the background ??

     
    >
    > > Then its going step by step with the install guides & when I try to install
    > MySQL, I type #
    > > groupadd mysql & I get "command not found" ... ??? no idea, I am following
    > the install guides...
    > > now if I am doing the same as everyone else with a fresh install of BSD,
    > why is it no one else
    > > gets groupadd mysql "command not found" ??
    >
    > What does "commmand not found" sound like it means?
    > The shell doesn't know how to find the command you typed in.
    > Either you didn't update your search path to include the directory
    > it is in or it didn't get installed correctly where it should be.
    > Probably the first is true. So, find out where it should be and
    > add that directory to the path. See man path.

    thnx, will check out the path.

    > Again, you are much safer on the net with a FreeBSD system.
    > Just do it. I do all my installs over the net.
    > Do use appropriate precautions such as ssh instead of telnet and ssl
    > protected sites where possible and check md5-s of downloaded files.
    > But, don't let it stop you from using it with FreeBSD.

    Do you install FreeBSD first & connect to the net for ports/packages, or
    install the actual FreeBSD OS from the /stand/sysinstall & select the net ??

     
    > It sounds a lot like you may have some processes wanting to check
    > themselves via the net upon startup that are holding things up
    > during boot. They will each wait until they time out before
    > things move on. I have several dual-boot machines, WinXP/FreeBSD,
    > Win2k/FreeBSd and Win95/FreeBSD and they all boot in about the same
    > amount of time with the FreeBSD being maybe a mite faster to get to
    > my login than the MS stuff being able to get to a state where I can
    > actually do something - eg not just getting the spash screen or background
    > displayed. So, either plug in the net or disable those utilities that
    > want to talk and try things again.

    My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running & opening nedit & a cmd prompts
    that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ??

    Kind regards,

    DK

                    
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