From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 04:42:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7AB1065675; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:42:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D908FC08; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:42:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2T4gqKJ012487 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:12:52 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4D90CC5E.80209@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:12:51 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4D90CC5E.80209@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.51 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer request X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:42:55 -0000 On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD = mode after installation. >>=20 >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the = newly installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In = chroot mode I can't access it. >=20 > Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow. While I'm making wishes.. What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab? It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in = the face of disk changes and so on.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C