From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 17:43:00 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA23071 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA23066 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.3/8.7.3) id XAA28624; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:41:38 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199612100141.XAA28624@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: using sysinstall, post install To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:41:38 -0200 (EDT) Cc: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Dec 9, 96 04:13:24 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Doug White) // On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote: // // > Is there some reason that sysinstall doesn't recoginse the CD once the // > system is up and running? I can't help here. I use ftp to install my packages. All that I know is that if I'm using CD Audio (workman, xmcd, etc), the music stops when sysinstall starts. // Because you shouldn't use sysinstall after the system is up. I don't know // why that was put in the default /motd; it's completely wrong. Run // pkg_manage instead, or use pkg_add, pkg_delete, and so forth. What's the problem ? I often use sysinstall to install new packages. It's big advantage over pkg_add is that it takes care of getting the needed files and dependencies from ftp. pkg_add is more friendly when you already have the package on hands, and know that no dependencies are needed. BTW: Since we're talking about packages, I remembered: Why is pkg_manage not anymore installed by default ? The sources are still available, and it seens to work. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro