Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:54:56 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> 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: <20090108155455.GA97139@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <FE67F5CA95E4456DA0C994DEC531E66E@GRANTPC> References: <a9f4a3860901071551k4e8dd0b7r92458c3d57e15ab@mail.gmail.com> <FE67F5CA95E4456DA0C994DEC531E66E@GRANTPC>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:23:20PM -0500, 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? You can do it manually, piece by piece. But, otherwise, you don't and you don't want to. Sysinstall works just fine. Mostly it doesn't have the pretty graphics of some fancier systems, but who cares. There are a couple of response sequences that can be confusing - that appear to make you do something more than once unless you skip them the second time you see it and just quit. But you get used to that. Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures that are missing. ////jerry > > -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"
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