Hi, I'm sorry I'm posting about a FreeBSD question...I though you people might know about it... Just 2 hours ago, I removed debian from my system in favour of a ports based OS, I popped in the gentoo 1.4 cd but there is no pppd in the tarballs, and to get pppd, i have to do 'emerge sync', and for that I need pppd (only have dialup connection) So I popped in an old FreeBSD 4.5 cd which I downloaded (an year ago?), now I've installed FreeBSD but I don't know how to update my whole system using ports, not binary. The manual is very confusing, and I've been able to configure ppp after half an hour of 'READING THE MANUAL AGAIN AND AGAIN' Also, www.freebsd.org/ports says "every port also has a link to the binary file of the package", but it doesn't say what exactly in the port folder of the package contains the link (there are many files and I can't find the link anywhere) Yes I could search for the package on ftp.freebsd.org, but that is not convenient... But my main problem is how to update the entire system... I didn't want to post in the unix forum (those people don't know anything about anything) Please Please help me. P.S. I kinda like the BSD-style init...its fast, and also, the whole system feels much faster then debian, even kde is very fast... I think i'll like FreeBSD when I learn to use it... Those of you tired of trying out the 'boring distros' might want to try out freebsd...

Try this. cd /usr/ports make update This will update your ports collection. If it is your intent to update all of your server, please reference the section of the freeBSD handbook that covers 'make world' http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html