Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:07:18 -0500 From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall Message-ID: <28283d910901071707v3280c5eeybc4ecc37b681426a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FE67F5CA95E4456DA0C994DEC531E66E@GRANTPC> References: <4C17D6F9D67D4A79814EB2EBA8004034@GRANTPC> <200901072114.18255.gnemmi@gmail.com> <a9f4a3860901071551k4e8dd0b7r92458c3d57e15ab@mail.gmail.com> <FE67F5CA95E4456DA0C994DEC531E66E@GRANTPC>
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote: > Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still > remains: > > How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility? > > -Grant > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> > To: "Gonzalo Nemmi" <gnemmi@gmail.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: Sysinstall > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is >>>> greatly >>>> in need of 'Death'. >>>> >>>> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? >>>> >>>> Is there a replacement in the works? >>>> >>>> -Grant >>>> >>> >>> Actually, the more use it, the more I like it .. >>> >>> The only con that I find is that I don't whether it's possible to install >>> Postfix instead of Sendmail by default, thus getting completely rid of >>> Sendmail on my FreeBSD installs. But that probably something that I'm >>> missing. >>> >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Blessings >>> Gonzalo Nemmi >>> >> >> In the curses-based sysinstall of later versions of FBSD (7+, I think >> - haven't done 6 in a while) I do indeed select postfix to install, or >> no MTA at all, then add postfix later. Depends on my mood... >> >> Kurt >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > you can't unless you do a freebsd from scratch which you can find here http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html there are other ways to do it but I just don't know them. there is finstall in the works
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