Hi,
Newbie FreeBSD user just trying to learn as much as I can about FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD8.2 and was trying to install Gnome but got a broken pipe error part way through a number of times, so I then tried KDE4 which also gave me a broken pipe error...I then read about (well, re-read) that I need to run portupgrade -a to get the ports tree updated. My question is, it's day 3 and it's still running...any idea how long it might take?! It's definitely working, as it scrolls heaps of stuff on the screen and periodically makes me choose whether to install particular bits of software but it's just going on and on...I imagine because it needs to update both Gnome and KDE, correct? Stupid me.
As an aside, if I have not customised the kernel or anything like that, can a FreeBSD installation that is on a USB be used on a different machine? I'm currently "trying it out" via a laptop before mucking around on my server hardware.
Thanks!
Chris
Newbie FreeBSD user just trying to learn as much as I can about FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD8.2 and was trying to install Gnome but got a broken pipe error part way through a number of times, so I then tried KDE4 which also gave me a broken pipe error...I then read about (well, re-read) that I need to run portupgrade -a to get the ports tree updated. My question is, it's day 3 and it's still running...any idea how long it might take?! It's definitely working, as it scrolls heaps of stuff on the screen and periodically makes me choose whether to install particular bits of software but it's just going on and on...I imagine because it needs to update both Gnome and KDE, correct? Stupid me.
As an aside, if I have not customised the kernel or anything like that, can a FreeBSD installation that is on a USB be used on a different machine? I'm currently "trying it out" via a laptop before mucking around on my server hardware.
Thanks!
Chris