On 06/18/15 20:22, Greg Troxel wrote:
"William A. Mahaffey III" <[email protected]> writes:
Only partly joking, more to indicate 'no offense intended'. The man
pages are quite useful & accurate, but mute on the interaction between
installer & commands invoked from the shell under the installer (for
example). I apparently got in trouble by rebooting from the invoked
shell rather than 'ctrl-D'-ing back to the installer (definitely pilot
error, but too easy to do), leaving things unbootable until I use
another USB installer to zero out enough of the 2 offending drives to
be able to boot the installer again. Again, no biggie, but a bit more
discussion somewhere might have kept me out of the drink.
A fair point, but this all belongs in the installer documentation, as
the commands are part of base and the installer is on top, logically.
Agreed, 300 %, but it (the documntation) belongs .... somewhere .... I
missed it & got snared, shouldn't have happened. I *think* (& I will
know this weekend) the FreeBSD installer reminds one to 'ctrl-D' out,
rather than rebooting .... I did this box late last summer, same
protocol, shell out to do the (rather fancy) partitioning, then finish
the install, but it conveniently reminded me to 'ctrl-D' out, rather
than reboot .... again, a minor doc issue, but eminently redressable if
I am right ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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