From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 23:10:12 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 9613310657AE; Mon, 11 May 2009 23:10:12 +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 DF4068FC16; Mon, 11 May 2009 23:10:11 +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 n4BNA803050673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 12 May 2009 08:40:09 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Saifi Khan Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:39:52 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200905112334.03387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1918922.Oi1uoyrp2P"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905120840.02575.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.399 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions , Vincent Hoffman 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 23:10:13 -0000 --nextPart1918922.Oi1uoyrp2P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > 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. > > > > FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into > > your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please > > stop. > > i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of > wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please. Like I said, install a release and upgrade that. You could try finding a -current snap that does work, but it's probably=20 going to be quicker to just get the latest 7 release, install and then=20 cvsup/csup to HEAD then build & install. =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 --nextPart1918922.Oi1uoyrp2P 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) iD8DBQBKCLBK5ZPcIHs/zowRAjyyAJ9KB/9VB5R3oc0MbcqPG/aVzRshrwCeKoLK JzzJm4KAkS0MhBRMx8IcL2k= =sgAE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1918922.Oi1uoyrp2P--