From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 14:04:08 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 B9CBD106566B; Mon, 11 May 2009 14:04:08 +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 0DA9A8FC13; Mon, 11 May 2009 14:04:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-46-151.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.46.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4BE45c2008258 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 11 May 2009 23:34:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:34:01 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4A07E966.60503@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart16562802.83dnu1Fono"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905112334.03387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.401 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Vincent Hoffman , 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 14:04:09 -0000 --nextPart16562802.83dnu1Fono Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > "Unknown giant" > i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ? > > stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping > or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving "unknown > giant". Oh well :) I think you're missing the point of a -current snapshot. It is _not_ designed for someone to come along and go "hey I'd like to=20 get into developing FreeBSD, I'll install it". It is there as a "system test" (ie make sure make release works) and to=20 provide a handy ISO for gurus if they need to bootstrap something. The fact the installer is broken should be reported as a bug though (ie=20 send-pr). > Check this out > http://www.twincling.org/node/237 > > If you scan this page for a minute, you will appreciate the > overall flow of installation of Gentoo Linux. Even if you > haven't tried the weekly Gentoo build, you may be encouraged to > try this out ! > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. =46reeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your=20 Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. If you want to try FreeBSD, start with a release, if that works then you=20 can update to HEAD and install that way. =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 --nextPart16562802.83dnu1Fono 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) iD8DBQBKCDBT5ZPcIHs/zowRAnHQAKCFg47qNP41jCEOvkfv0Azs0Ry98wCgp193 sgZbwHl5RAI0QOWgZOaOgsU= =lSt+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16562802.83dnu1Fono--