On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>
> > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
> > >
> > >
> > Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit
> > environment which is very handy for this
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are
> > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the
> > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful.
> >
> > FreeBSD doesn't work th
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:08 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
> -Stable is where newer software from -Current (HEAD) is merged
> backwards. An example would be a driver bug that was fixed in
> 8.0-Current would be made available in 7.2-Stable. The main purpose
> for using -Stable is for when some spe
Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are
>> > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the
>> > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful.
>>
>> FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are
andrew clarke wrote:
On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au)
wrote:
A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will.
That reminds me...
Can someone explain to me why it's called a "holographic shell"?
It's an 'emergency holographic shell' actua
On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au)
wrote:
> > Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things
> > to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs
> > there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in.
>
> Depends wh
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >
> > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are
> > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the
> > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful.
>
> FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into yo
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> "Unknown giant"
> i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ?
>
> stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping
> or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving "unknown
> giant". Oh well :)
I think you're
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
> > >
> > > i'm using F
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
> >
> > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking
> > for
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
> >
> > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking
> > for an appro
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
>
> i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking
> for an approach to drive the entire installation from the
> Fixit# comman
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
>
> i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking
> for an approach to drive the entire installation from the
> Fixit# command line co
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