From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 18:00:45 2010 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 1899F106566C for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j65nko@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F11E8FC1B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so1968515bwz.33 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hXdHhhLTeCs5b5zaqfzL67g5OtMuenf96GDnOrk2nno=; b=c7fmgMzANflZE+XwXbkNBhGLqneStq3vDGrXADhS3IgjtCFShq1FRiYw7uxnsb/KTg YY98PISDMkfAKpe4eDHpZdtbUM2rvYOGzgyQUJzn5IXlKXNR1LSZIQx2BBhlvMew01Vr TFVlosXB1dkFpbuqCUsZ3V7xdyo6DOClLiX28= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bZeYlsTW5M9Ds5Un35mfjaSbK1cOdfBCiJhnep0aXJTEQnI2qZ6ELPRpHFyYJOrMJT 0ik/lHaGy6hC+wEp285Vy5ryivAE0H3sx37Ri04VBaEfPp7Wh9vkM6Gol4p/dlZvYpA/ JFsbzz+Le2IorRMlvyuru7B6jGhl9mbsHxMb4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.151.217 with SMTP id d25mr4511798bkw.24.1265738441474; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201002090341.o193fu5v092928@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:00:41 +0100 Message-ID: <19861fba1002091000k6b6de07el40f020573fb2465@mail.gmail.com> From: J65nko To: Martin McCormick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question 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: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:00:45 -0000 On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Martin McCormick 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