Installing Gnome and Xorg from installation DVD

[Matthew Seaman]

On 13/02/2012 20:01, Arif Hossain wrote:
> 1. I have got Installation dvd for freebsd 9.0. I've succesfully
> installed it in vmware. Now i want to install the packages included in
> the dvd. Somehow or the other sysinstall can not mount the dvd. So i
> manually mounted it in /mnt and copied the /package folder into
> my /root. Now what should i do to install a working gnome2 desktop? if i
> give something like pkg_add -vn *, it reports several missing
> dependencies. So how should i install it properly without downloading
> anything?

Set PKG_PATH in your environment.  See pkg_add(1) for details.
> 
> 2. I want to see codes for the base system. During installation i've
> selected "source" to be installed. there are sources for "some" packages
> in /usr/source but for some i see only Makefiles. How to get these other
> sources?

That's intentional.  You can find the missing sources under
/usr/src/contrib, /usr/src/crypto

> 3. I alway use git and svn. and i'm not looking forward to learn cvs. I
> want my "base" system source tree to be updated through svn. Now does
> the sources included in dvd is tracked by svn or cvs? i mean to get the
> latest development snapshot for the "base" system should i have to do
> something more or i just can do "svn update"?

Base system is svn now, although it's exported to cvs as well for
backwards compatibility.  http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer

> 4. I'm a old linux user, this is infact my first bsd installation but
> i'm loving the "way of bsd". Its a wonderful 

Yuo.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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