Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

Ramiro Aceves ea1abz at wanadoo.es
Sun Feb 27 13:20:49 GMT 2005


Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> John writes:
> 
> 
>>I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
>>by hand.
> 
> 
> It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
> 
> 
>>How much space have you got to play with?
> 
> 
> About 2 GB total remaining on /usr.  Just installing X stuff gobbled up
> a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
> 

Hello Anthony,

If you have 2 GB remaining in /usr, install the ports tree, it will eat 
about 350 MB. I have updated recently the pots tree and yesterday I 
installed successfully Firefox-1.0_7,1 nicely on this slow AMD 400 MHz 
machine from the ports, and it works ok.

Good luck.
Ramiro.





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