From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 18:11:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09781 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09776 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA00549 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:10:48 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ab06038; 27 Jun 96 2:08 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa11006; 27 Jun 96 1:34 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA05341; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 23:30:39 GMT Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 23:30:39 GMT Message-Id: <199606262330.XAA05341@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: zielke@lcp.nrl.navy.mil CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9606262135.AA27851@lcp.nrl.navy.mil> (zielke@lcp.nrl.navy.mil) Subject: Re: "everything" vs "piecemeal" installations. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As my network connection is somewhat unstable I have not been successful > in having it stay available long enough to do a "everything" install, the > question is if I select the options to install one by one the options > in /stand/sysinstall will I get all that I would get with the "everything" > option in the distributions menu? You only need to select the "minimal installation" - everything else can be added later. (I used to do this when I had a wobbly CDROM). If you look in each of the directories under 'dists', they each have an install script called 'install.sh' that you can run by hand, once you've got all the .aa, .ab, ... files. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk