Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:00:41 +0100 From: J65nko <j65nko@gmail.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question Message-ID: <19861fba1002091000k6b6de07el40f020573fb2465@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found > out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive > rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not > something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel > editor. It is found in the very first menu which oddly is > numbered 2 and is the options editor. The option that makes it > all work is one that lets you specify where you want the > distribution to go on the drive. It is always set for you when > using the CDROM unless you were formatting another disk so it is > kind of easy to miss. I missed it for a week and a half. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Now the question. There are a bunch of functions that > can be set in sysinstall such as the bsdlabel editor, partition > editor and dists to name a few. It would be nice to be able to > set that mount point in install.cfg because I am trying to make > a script that coworkers can run to configure a system quickly > without having to waste a week of their own trying to figure it > all out. IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all. See the "FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall" guide at http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D1538
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