From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 15:26:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28321 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28301 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05971 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:26:13 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01535; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:38:04 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:38:04 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing without booting off floppy. References: <199702241537.HAA24423@freefall.freebsd.org> <199702241652.DAA07869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702241652.DAA07869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 25, 1997 03:22:13 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > The trick to all of this is being able to run "sysinstall". > > > > Once you've installed a system, this gets deleted...is it worth keeping > > this around, maybe as a way to install further packages ? > > Try looking in /stand someday, or read the MOTD 8) Well, but /stand/sysinstall isn't that great to install a complete system onto a second disk. It does a lot of special-casing when it's being run as PID 1. However, Darren, /stand/sysinstall doesn't do anything overly magic. You might even be able to use its disk editor in standalone mode now, if you don't prefer the spartanic disklabel(8) user interface. The distributions itself are simple split .tar.gz files. Most if not all of the post-installation configuration goes in the new /etc/sysconfig file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)