From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 06:31:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA2A1065673 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 06:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A338FC13 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 06:31:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4B6FDBX082234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 11 May 2009 15:45:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:45:03 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart23436660.UMz7cpR7rU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905111545.11696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.493 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Saifi Khan , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 06:31:28 -0000 --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--