Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:02 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Subject: Re: BSD Installer release 1 Message-ID: <20050729005202.GB3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <42E97CBF.4090404@makeworld.com> References: <42E972D2.3040405@fubar.geek.nz> <001d01c593d4$6cf320f0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20050729004440.GA3213@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42E97CBF.4090404@makeworld.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:47:59PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:28:17AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > > > >>Interesting but the listed bugs preclude its use here and I suspect > >>in most environments :( > > > > > > I do nearly all my installs without ports, packages, or source: > > > > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > # edit sup files > > # run cvsup > > Unnn - I may have missed a huge part of this... But, if your doing > cvsup, and its the ports tree you are cvsupping - then you ARE using ports. I said I do the INSTALL without them. I just the source tree and ports quite being a committer to both of them. I just find the copies on the release media a waste of time to install since I'll just be nuking them and installing new copies from cvs. I was attempting to point out that the currently missing features while important to the overall experience, aren't critical to being able to get a system up and running configured how ever you like so long as you have a decent network connection (which you presumably do if you're going to be downloading a 300MB iso to test out an installer. :) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6X2yXY6L6fI4GtQRAhyKAJoDecPOEmkdAnZvGIRZj9M+bvCjgwCg30VV LEI9jYbz5YJ9R3R3CQ7sv5s= =Sced -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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