From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 15:52:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4EF106566C for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdq@peterk.org) Received: from poshta.pknet.net (poshta.pknet.net [216.241.167.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7838FC13 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10234 invoked by uid 89); 19 Oct 2011 15:25:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO pop.pknet.net) (127.0.0.1) by poshta.pknet.net with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2011 15:25:53 -0000 Received: from 74.63.162.21 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by pop.pknet.net with HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:25:53 -0600 Message-ID: <61a9855413a654a4163402e76aa56555.squirrel@pop.pknet.net> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:25:53 -0600 From: "Peter" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: 9.0-RC1 - installer observations and "shell in new system" gamble... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:35 -0000 . During install, in the 'Add Users' part, why is it able to add the new user 'peter' to a new group 'peter' [the default option], but when I try to put user 'peter' into a more generic new group 'admin' it says group does not exist - I figure group 'peter' also does not exist at this time. "Invite peter into other groups? []" - Sounds like the user gets an invitation and that I should answer 'yes'/'no' here, not with an actual group name, how about "List other groups peter should be added to:" Also, after I'm done with that and "Open a shell in the new system", /etc/passwd is populated with user 'peter', but /etc/rc.conf and /etc/fstab files do not exist. I wanted to change fstab to use the gpt labels, not partition numbers but that file does not exist and gets overwritten by installer on reboot. rc.conf - I created a one line comment "#pk test' - after reboot this is what I have in /etc/rc.conf $ cat /etc/rc.conf hostname="pkbsd" # pk test ifconfig_em0="DHCP" sshd_enable="YES" So my comment stayed but was moved when installer configs were written on reboot. Added same comment to /etc/fstab, but it did not stay and was overwritten: $ cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ada0p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ada0p3 none swap sw 0 0 So even if I did add the gpt labeled 'Devices' in there, it would be overwritten when the installer reboots and makes the live shell a gamble of what will stay what won't on reboot.... ]Peter[