From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 01:07:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C341065670 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f11.google.com (mail-fx0-f11.google.com [209.85.220.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C223A8FC16 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so1603060fxm.19 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=esm2sTKIFO88NfOt8Edf03RWT4Jvm3VRzEjWsKr6H18=; b=lxwn1LbhGklqPL4D+LA93HfVBLNnA8AqV295mVrJ2IlZt4zuqjHrrQUCteqrTg6xO2 LrdUmct1TRLwuHx1Txn3Rg0JcIkBIo3KlEBn7ruh0hwoWMsw64QITNFfmefYuG1BXW5I XO5YoCGCnB1KFkY+q8Bbh9FqmFEzpqz0L+nms= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=IhKOsabMUO6Hv/tgOZ8KdaZWVbsSzIKbBpx9uujDKr1e8HHsbV/t0Mgntr3z5n7IRN M9qeNnKqrbwxrmlBB42QS0Yya1afqbSlO1mzWmjdIHEFSov+WgKZPdqLReQO/v+9R4vq Fl5Mr2HUs+aQMZq66seX52RR9Z6U+xE3FINdk= Received: by 10.181.36.9 with SMTP id o9mr9105346bkj.148.1231376838816; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.14.6 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:07:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <28283d910901071707v3280c5eeybc4ecc37b681426a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:07:18 -0500 From: "matt donovan" To: "Grant Peel" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4C17D6F9D67D4A79814EB2EBA8004034@GRANTPC> <200901072114.18255.gnemmi@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Kurt Buff , Gonzalo Nemmi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:07:20 -0000 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Grant Peel 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" > To: "Gonzalo Nemmi" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: Sysinstall > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi 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