Install Default Packages in FreeBSD 8.0

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viento

I've successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE from the .iso file, but I have no packages ,editors, or utilities available to me. I don't even have bash installed.

After installing a few times and reading the Post-installation section of the handbook, I am not presented with any of the packages listed in this screenshot. When I browsed the distribution CD, I only found a documentation packages contained within the CD:

Code: 
$ ls FreeBSD_Install/packages/All/
bn-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    es-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    mn-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    sr-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz
da-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    fr-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    nl-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    tr-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz
de-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    hu-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    pl-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    zh_cn-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz
el-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    it-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    pt-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    zh_tw-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz
en-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    ja-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz    ru-freebsd-doc-20090913.tbz

Is there anyway to have a default set of packages and utilities installed? I'm new to Unix, but it seems cumbersome to run "make install" on everything from the /usr/ports directory for each utility I'd like. Installing Bash took about 10 minutes to compile.

Am I missing something?
 
viento said:
Is there anyway to have a default set of packages and utilities installed?
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There is no default set of packages. FreeBSD lets you choose what to install.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html


I'm new to Unix, but it seems cumbersome to run "make install" on everything from the /usr/ports directory for each utility I'd like.
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Read up on using pkg_add.

Installing Bash took about 10 minutes to compile.
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Wauw.. 10 minutes.. I remember the days when compiling X took more then a day :e
 
thanks, SirDice. I was able to use pkg_add to install a few packages to make things easier for me.

$ pkg_add -r bash
$ pkg_add -r nano
$ pkg_add -r zip

I didn't understand that the packages differed from the ports in that the former are pre-compiled.
 
Also, I'm willing to contribute and update the documentation and screenshots for the 8.0 install section. Just point me in the right direction regarding whom I should contact.
 
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