From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 18:52:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA12163 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA12151 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00252; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:50:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David Zielke cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "everything" vs "piecemeal" installations. In-Reply-To: <9606262135.AA27851@lcp.nrl.navy.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, David Zielke wrote: > 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? I don't quite understand what you mean by "one-by-one". Running sysinstall multiple times is not such a great idea. I would be looking at another install method right about now :-) Or, install the bin distribution (this will get you a basic system) then install the other distributions manually. The bin distribution gives you enough to do a dial-up connection (ppp or slip) and then you can ftp the distributions and install them like so: cat dist.* | tar xvzf - Just make sure you're in the right place. tar's 't' option is view, you can use that and figure out where you need to be. Or you can use the floppy install option. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major