Hi all
I suggest this "flame" to stop right now... because everybody is ok
finally....
I agree with Rob in the fact that 'sysinstall' is a bit disturbing tool
with its way of working: the "enter" key, the error messages if HTTP
source is unavailable, etc....
and I confess I had to re-install my laptop 3 or 4 times before getting
what I wanted from sysinstall. Maybe this tool should be upgraded, but I
think it should not follow the way other installerd did.... somebody
spokes about the Oracle installer... It was a real hell for you: how to
install an Oracle database onto an HP 7 inch terminal, without X and/or
Java installed ??
I hope FreeBSD will never get way, like Windows or Linux....
How about to give a try at the actual Debian ncurse installer ??? still
in text based environment, but very powerful ....
Kevin Oberman a écrit :
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700
From: "Rob Lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war. All I wanted was two things: 1.
CD's that installed without being switched in and out dozens of times. That
was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD. I didn't even know the DVD
install existed, but will do that next time.
You call this a flame war? It's been pretty civil and there are no scorch
marks on my display.
I agree that the disk swapping is not a good thing, but I simply avoid
it by never installing packages from sysinstall. I only use sysinstall
for FreeBSD.
Once I have FreeBSD installed, I update my ports tree with csup (but
portsnap is probably a better way) and install ruby and
portupgrade. Then I simply install the ports/packages I want using
'portinstall -P'. This assures that I have the latest ports and not
something stale. I can speed the process by copying all of the packages
from CD to my system (/usr/ports/packages/All). That way, only ports
that have been updated since the release will be downloaded and I only
have to change CDs a couple of times.
2. Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a dependency
is already present. Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to install gigantic
packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE metapackage, and my
notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or thereabout. That is one hell
of a long compile time. For this request I will just have to wait for
FreeBSD 10.0.
I have not seen this, but I don't sue sysinstall to install
packages/ports.
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