Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
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. I would

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
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# command line

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
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 approach to drive

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
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 an

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 FreeBSD 8.0

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 missing

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
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 your

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread andrew clarke
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 what sort

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
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'

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Powell
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 trying to fit

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread RW
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:08 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net 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

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 this way, you