Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <1325193958.31545.YahooMailClassic@web113520.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLo838QmnSz_oNis5zZiwqO7YLBAkYcEGQFsXN4J33jcdWv9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Gio 29/12/11, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> ha scritto: > > FWIW; > > > > I have practically given up on installing FreeBSD > lately > > and I mostly use PC-BSD. I mainly see two big issues: > > > > -X.Org has become very difficult to install. Setting > up > > hald and friends, not to mention that you have to > > choose carefully your hardware previously. It's a > > nightmare. > > I've not found that... installing xorg-drivers with the > correct options is hassle-free... have you posted these > problems to -x11@? > Hmm.. I think it was 8.2 and "X.org -configure" didn't give me a working screen, and then I discovered I had to be using hald, it was painful and I starting keeping a copy of my working configuration in a USB mem. TBH the -x11 guys were really doing their own homework keeping up with linux and I was able to find out the information on the net. I use the nvidia driver, no idea what people with ATI cards do. > > - I am OK with sysinstall disappearing: however it > was > > nice to have all the setup tools in one place. How am > > I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the > myriad > > of dependencies) from now on? Ports are cool but > having > > to wait to rebuild gcc to be able to use scilab is a > > nonsense. > > Use packages, we do do them! > Of course, but no idea how to use them without sysinstall's post-install configuration screen: it was just too easy. I hope I don't have to start downloading manually all the prepackaged dependencies (I still do that with Java and it's not nice). Pedro.help
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