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Subject: Re: using sysinstall, post install
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:58:00 +0100 (MEZ)
Cc: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961209161242.1382V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Dec 9, 96 04:13:24 pm
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E-mail message from Doug White contained:
> 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?
> 
> 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.  

sysinstall works perfectly well for package management even after install.
Caveat: mount the CD and use filesystem media choice in sysinstall. YMMV.

/Marino
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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