1) you can use pkg_add, to add packages (there are many available, but not all), however, when packages aren't available (and they are outdated), you can use ports
When using ports you can chose which components you want to include.... also ports might be optimized for your machine
to back up i'd use dump -0Lauf /output/file /dev/device to backup
or dump -0Lauf - /dev/device to backup | bzip2 > /output/file.bz2
if you want to compress it...
Last edited by graudeejs; 13th July 2008 at 09:00 PM.
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