Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:30:20 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: pfg@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: <CADLo83_2Xr8shOu41c81uSxn%2B-cABf4aWyf3-ac3j4fQUzMUig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1325193958.31545.YahooMailClassic@web113520.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <CADLo838QmnSz_oNis5zZiwqO7YLBAkYcEGQFsXN4J33jcdWv9Q@mail.gmail.com> <1325193958.31545.YahooMailClassic@web113520.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 29 December 2011 21:25, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > --- 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'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with that, if you ever want to try again and you can't work it out get me off list ;) >> > - 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). Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it with something monstrous (like gcc...) Chris
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