From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 9:34:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895FC14F38 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA14812; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:34:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:34:56 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Dan Mayne Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Custom Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Dan Mayne wrote: > I tried to do a custom install where I installed everything but the OS > source. > The install was done on with all the default partitioning selected. > FreeBSD was the only OS on the disk. > > Everything looked good until the end, but when I rebooted, I found that > there was no kernel written to the disk. > > I tried this 3 mroe times (selecting different components each time) with > the same results. > > If I install using one of the predefined install sets (User, Developer, > X-Developer, etc.) the install works fine and the kernel gets written to the > disk. > > Is this a problem, am I doing something wrong, or is the Custom install > option only for adding components to an existing installation? You're doing something wrong. :) What that something is I have no idea. I always use Custom and haven't had any install problems. If you just want to get going, Kernel Developer followed by a post install X installation would be close to what *I* do with Custom installs. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message