On 07/08/2025 02:41, Graham Perrin wrote:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/freebsd_installers_differences_between_the_shell/> was partly …
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/comment/n6y4s5h/> (for the live system) shows a bsdinstall(8) target that is not documented:
startbsdinstall
Subsequent use of the shell, from the welcome dialogue, may fail to present the usual /bin/sh command prompt: …
It's not useless – as shown, commands can be entered in the absence of the command prompt.
Incidentally, the manual page lacks a section for bugs, <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-current#BUGS>
