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From: "Stuart Duckworth" <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk>
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On 29 May 01, at 19:53, James wrote:

> 
> Wa do not want a Mandrake style install thankyou :-)
> 

I'm a newbie, forgive me ... isn't that little grey dialogue with 
selections that you highlight with the edit keys and select with the 
spacebar a graphical interface?  It's crude, I know, but still 
graphical.

I meant in my original question that there might be a command line 
method of installation where you might have greater control over 
what is installed and be less likely, through an oversight, to install 
unnecessary packages.

I asked more out of curiosity than anything else.  I shall use the 
graphical installer.

One of the things that appeals to me about FreeBSD is the 
absence of windoze-like "wizards" .... I have a distrust of anything 
that is peddled as magic and of the people who do the peddling.

Stuart.

> On Tue, 29 May 2001, David Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Stuart Duckworth wrote:
> > 
> > > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing
> > > without using the graphical installation program on the boot up
> > > floppy?
> > 
> > Graphical installation? What graphical installation? Have you guys been
> > holding out on me?
> > 
> > I installed 4.3 less than a month ago, and I got the same old
> > semi-reliable (it doesn't like my cdrom) installer that I've always
> > gotten. Is there another more graphical installer available that I don't
> > know about? Or is *this* the graphical installer, and there's a much
> > more unfriendly method of install?
> > 
> > David
> > 
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