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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Having Problems Installing From DOS partition. Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:32:50 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31BE2C52.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <4pdr81$3bb@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <31BB19E2.764D@www.play-hookey.com> <4pi82i$jcs@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <31BD0294.3EA@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Ken Bigelow wrote: > No real problem, and you don't need to do that. Start with the various > packages available in the distribution and use pkg_add. I also suggest Or, in any of the later snaps (2.1 or 2.2), type: /stand/sysinstall configPackages > > The install program mentioned to use /stand/sysinstall > > That's only for configuration and such -- not for major new additions. Actually, it now works well enough that you may use it for adding new distributions and packages, configuring the system (yes, even adding a second disk :-), etc. I've put a fair bit of work into it to make it more useful in the post-installation scenario than it ever has been in the past. /stand/sysinstall now has "shortcuts" you can use to run parts of it directly, e.g. the `configPackages' example I gave above. For a full list (sorry, no man page yet) see /usr/src/release/sysinstall/dispatch.c (the source remains always the best reference :-). I hope that this will make it more useful in shell functions and user-provided aliases. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project