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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall log?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970518130413.006fd804@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Ken Presser at "May 18, 97 01:04:13 pm"
To: kendp@ibm.net (Ken Presser)
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 21:00:21 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Does sysinstall write out a log file of its actions?  I was installing a
> bunch of ports and it locked up in the middle of the install.  I need to
> know what it did and didn't finish.  Also is there a way to recover all
> those little checkmarks I made in selecting things to install?

To see which packages are installed, do a

# pkg_info -a

and reselect the remaining packages again in /stand/sysinstall or install
them with pkg_add(1).

Wolfgang