Ian Smith wrote:
> % man sysinstall | tail says it all. However sysinstall has enough bits
> (modules, really) that don't suck to make its presence still worthy.
>
> The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a
> notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and sli
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
>
>
> > The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a
> > notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and slice offsets themselves.
> > If even those sections were broken out to separate tools, I'd ra
Ian Smith wrote:
> The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a
> notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and slice offsets themselves.
> If even those sections were broken out to separate tools, I'd rarely
> need to fire up sysinstall to, for example, partition
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is
> > still the default browser in Options, available during installation from
> > another vty. So I was a bit surprised, on rebo
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:27:31PM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> Personally, I quit using packages in the 2.x-3.x days since there were
> far less problems building everything from sources and not trying to
> mix pre-built packages and locally built ports.
We are doing much better these days in term
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:50:08 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Linimon) wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:06:24AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> > Additionally, I've never seen a clear way of synchronizing a
> > local ports tree to that used to create the "LATEST" packages.
>
> There's really not a way
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:06:24AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> Additionally, I've never seen a clear way of synchronizing a
> local ports tree to that used to create the "LATEST" packages.
There's really not a way to easily track this, especially with the
fact that we tend to run incremental updat
Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Kai Otto wrote:
> > I think someone mentioned it earlier, but I'm not shure.
> > IMHO it would _be_ nice if there's a HTML-browser in the standard
> > installation (with option to not install it in sysinstall).
> > I say HTML and not web because I think about the /usr/sh
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:06:24AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> The ports tree distribution tarball provided on the installation disks
> is another area that needs some consideration. I suspect that many
> people aren't aware of the need for "adoption":
>
> http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/hints_n_
Ken Smith wrote:
I'm with Scott in that I like the "other distros" being around. I don't
think that necessarily means we shouldn't try harder. But IMHO trying
harder needs to be reflected in a new installer. Lets face it,
sysinstall s*cks... For the type of folks who want the installer to do
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:46:37 -0400
Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is
> > still the default browser in Options, available during installation from
> > another vty. S
On Sunday 07 September 2008 06:46:37 Ken Smith wrote:
> The path I'm planning is based on these observations:
>
> - Many people believe you should just use sysinstall to install
> the baseline system, and any packages/ports installs should
> be done post-install. Its hard to
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is
> still the default browser in Options, available during installation from
> another vty. So I was a bit surprised, on rebooting into my so far not
> much configured 7.0, t
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: Kai Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2008/9/5
> > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
> > To: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I think someone mentioned it earlier, but
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:24:49 +0200
> From: "Kai Otto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Kai Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2008/9/5
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
> To: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> Hello
>
> I th
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Kai Otto typed:
>
> I think someone mentioned it earlier, but I'm not shure.
> IMHO it would _be_ nice if there's a HTML-browser in the standard
> installation (with option to not install it in sysinstall).
> I say HTML and not web because I think about th
-- Forwarded message --
From: Kai Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/9/5
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
To: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello
I think someone mentioned it earlier, but I'm not shure.
IMHO it would _be_ nice if there's a HTML-browser in the standard
installati
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