From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 26 17:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cr575310-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com (cr575310-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.185.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EEB715089 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dark@idiotswitch.org) Received: (qmail 85315 invoked from network); 27 Jul 1999 00:25:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a11.idiotswitch.org) (10.0.0.11) by 10.0.0.1 with SMTP; 27 Jul 1999 00:25:24 -0000 From: Rod Taylor To: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: FreeBSD essentials Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:20:53 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <19990727020010.J46076@paert.tse-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99072620254800.58232@a11.idiotswitch.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It would be quite slick if the installer would present you with a list of the preferred stuff, then upon your first login, along with asking you to change your root password, a script would chug along in hte background installing all the ports. (Packages are for wimps). Another option that would be really nice in the installer, would be a method by which you could choose to keep -stable updated. Meaning, it makes a cron entry so once a week it cvsup's the source. I'm afraid I just can't follow /stand/sysinstall source very well to implement these :( -- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -Laurence J. Peter (contributed by Chris Johnston) -- Rod Taylor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message