From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 18:21:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4927916A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD93943D55 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:21:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by april.chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D765311F46 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:14:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <425D6318.3000508@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:21:12 +0000 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: installation messup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:21:32 -0000 I have a problem to fix in an installation I just did, and I need to know if it's possible to misuse/abuse sysinstall in the manner I need to. I was putting a copy of FreeBSD into a system of a friend. hhis system is based on scsi, and I couldn't seem to get it to boot from ide, so instead of using the ide drive he'd given me, I installed FreeBSD into a drive I gave him. Smallish, but 9 Gigs is more than enough for a nice FreeBSD system, and besides, it woud compare better against the scsi based Windows install that he's going to be comparing it to. So, I did the install, and booted it twice, just to make sure. I had installed KDE, and I was amazed to see that the install worked like a miracle, all the way to the last KDE detail. Unfortunately, when he came 2 days later to pick up the machine, now at the disk manager f1 prompt, it's giving me a symbol that is like F(down-arrow), and I didn't even realize that the system could produce that down-arrow character. Well, so I figure that the best idea is to reinstall the disk manager. If I go into the "experts" install, can I get it to install just the disk manager only?