Handling of ports, and naming convention?

[Grzegorz Czaplinski]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:30:16PM +0200, lasse wrote:
> Hello! 
> A fresh installation of 5.0 are now up and running, there are som issues that i wonder about 
> 1. I must be able to login by the serial port, but i cant by default, why? and here can i cange it?
> 2. Ports, how do i know i i got the latest set of ports? and if there are new ports out, can i upgrade all ports in one step? (apt-get dist-upgrade) (the debian way)
> 3. Where can i  find a good howto about recompile the kernel? (step by step, but not for dummies)
> 4. Are there any i-left-linux-for-bsd guides? ide,serial,scsi namingconventios ?

Hi there!
All of your questions are already answered in the handbook.
OK, I will help you with question 1 and 4.

1. Go here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html
4. Go there:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks.html

For better understanding read all from 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Cheers,
	Grzegorz
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