From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 30 5:55:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666D537B71F for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 05:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14izNY-00071L-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:55:52 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2UDtq203632 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:55:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:55:52 +0100 From: Rasputin To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop selection on sysinstall and available packages in CD-ROM Message-ID: <20010330145552.A3531@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <010330214406.M0122263@mistral.imasy.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <010330214406.M0122263@mistral.imasy.or.jp>; from mistral@imasy.or.jp on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:44:06PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Yoshihiko SARUMARU [010330 13:45]: > I think this is not a new problem, but I think this is still a problem. > The sysinstall can select user's desktop on installation.... > ...But not all of those packages are put into installation CD-ROM, > typically ISO-IMAGE on /pub/FreeBSD/releases/*/ISO-IMAGES/. > > Package fvwm-1.24r read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1) It bit me during the install of 4.0, but that was the last time I used a CD. It looked to my untrained eye (back in the mists of, ooh, last June) like the installer had locked up. One answer could be to modify the sysinstall config on those ISOs to hold a reduced list of packages (or at least provide a popup warning for missing packages, indicating a URL to the 'ports' part of the Handbook online). Although that's a lot of work so clsoe to a release. Maybe something in the README in the ISO directory of the ftp server mentioning this would be enough? -- Rasputin - Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns "That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" -- Foghorn Leghorn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message