From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 19 14:01:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13516 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corphq1.harding.com ([144.195.64.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA13511 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lfloyd@harding.com) From: lfloyd@harding.com Received: by corphq1.harding.com with VINES-ISMTP; Thu, 19 Mar 98 14:00:42 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 98 13:59:18 -0800 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: Reply-To: Subject: Re: bsd install X-Incognito-SN: 1021 X-Incognito-Version: 4.10.130 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You're probably right! It didn't make sense to me that I'd have to start over to add distribution sets. Thanks! ------------- Original Text From: "Dmitri Lukyanov" , on 3/19/98 1:10 PM: To: LFloyd@Novato_Project@Harding Cc: SMTP@CorpHQ@Harding[] On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 lfloyd@harding.com wrote: > After I got things running, I found that there were no man pages. Ack! So > I did a /stand/sysinstall to install the package that included man pages, > etc. This completely wiped out my original configuration, such as users, > etc. I don't think you're right. Probably you used "Begin a ... installation (for ...)" in the /stand/sysinstall menu. This way you will reset your configuration to defaults. You should use "Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD" -> "Install additional distribution sets" in the /stand/sysinstall menu instead. Dmitri. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message