On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Grant Peel <gp...@thenetnow.com> wrote:
> Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still > remains: > > How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility? > > -Grant > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > To: "Gonzalo Nemmi" <gne...@gmail.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: Sysinstall > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is >>>> greatly >>>> in need of 'Death'. >>>> >>>> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? >>>> >>>> Is there a replacement in the works? >>>> >>>> -Grant >>>> >>> >>> Actually, the more use it, the more I like it .. >>> >>> The only con that I find is that I don't whether it's possible to install >>> Postfix instead of Sendmail by default, thus getting completely rid of >>> Sendmail on my FreeBSD installs. But that probably something that I'm >>> missing. >>> >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Blessings >>> Gonzalo Nemmi >>> >> >> In the curses-based sysinstall of later versions of FBSD (7+, I think >> - haven't done 6 in a while) I do indeed select postfix to install, or >> no MTA at all, then add postfix later. Depends on my mood... >> >> Kurt >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > you can't unless you do a freebsd from scratch which you can find here http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html there are other ways to do it but I just don't know them. there is finstall in the works _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
