Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: >> >> > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting &quo

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: > > > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into > > > /etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.) > > >

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Lytle wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt >> that >> its unique to me. It has occurred in every

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

iling. Plus, you are presented with numerous nag screens so you have to babysit the whole process. Rob. On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700 > > From: "Rob Lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

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. 2. Being able to us

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

cations that matter go native, we need more installs >> and more people on the systems. That means more installs to laptops. The >> installs have to be seamless and complete. That mean getting more Open >> Source people and companies to compile and distribute BSD. >> >>

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / thanks for responding

Thanks Sean, This is the first time I ever actually downloaded all 3 CD's so i didn't know what I was getting into. I had always just used the first CD for the initial install, then ports for everything else. Next time I will use the dvd. Actually that would have been perfect as I got one of th

Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

Hi All, My depressing analysis- YMMV. I've used FreeBSD since 1998. 1..Installing the packages off of the menu on the 3 CDROMs is an incredibly tedious miserable process. I had to switch out the CD's around 40 times. If you don't believe me, just mark a whole bunch of random packages after obtai