Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:45:03 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation Message-ID: <200905111545.11696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111045470.4982@localhost> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111045470.4982@localhost>
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--nextPart23436660.UMz7cpR7rU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > for an approach to drive the entire installation from the > Fixit# command line console. > > i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. > > Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? You won't be able to partition the disk from the command line because=20 the install MFS doesn't have any of the requisite tools to do so. You could do it from a livefs disk however. As for observations.. I think you're wasting your time :) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart23436660.UMz7cpR7rU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKB8Jv5ZPcIHs/zowRAtlPAJ0bTCojr0pCoxbYk9S2mHtOntkUcACdFpVQ gYadR6xnoVNRGOgKgm8pnjw= =hAVG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23436660.UMz7cpR7rU--
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