From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 14:26:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5464416A419 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C1F13C442 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m09EQTTP053543; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:26:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Wm4cxepJvB7F; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:26:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m09EQHoO053538; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:26:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4784D984.3090901@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:26:12 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Dowd References: <4783AE58.6000502@dfwlp.com> <4783B125.3090909@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fortune X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:26:31 -0000 Jon Dowd wrote: > > Later when I'm at that computer's console I will try to install the > "games" distribution from sysinstall (unless someone demonstrates a > simple way for me to proceed remotely). Sysinstall can easily be run remotely; it has a "post install" "configure" option that is used for situation such as this. IIRC, the option you'll want is "select additional distribution sets". Simply "shell in" with ssh from your remote computer, su to root, and run sysinstall at your shell prompt. > Thanks to you all for helping an 'all thumbs' newb. No problem --- we mostly remember when we were "all thumbs", too. Kevin Kinsey -- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers