Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

[John]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
> John writes:
> 
> > 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you
> > nfs mount it?
> 
> I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!

well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the
small-harddrive machine of course. Is it also stripped out of the server?

I extended the usable lifetime of a p90 laptop like this. It was short on
space and I had neither the money or inclination at the time to buy an
expensive laptop-size harddrive. Whenever I needed to update, I just mounted
the servers exported /usr/ports 

[snip]

> I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that.

...ummm this is rather like a windows admin saying s/he never updates windows.
All software develops holes or vunerabilities are found.

> I'll have to look into this when time permits.  It seems like a lot 
> of effort for something that normally isn't done very much on a production
> system (presumably one is not constantly installing and deinstalling
> software on a production server).

Updating. yes you are constantly updating on a production server, unless your
idea of fun is somebody compromising your machine. It is especially true on a
production server. You can automate some, but not all, of the updating,
because automatic updating is not without its own risks (think updating
firefox v. updating exim). 
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