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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 2nd request: How to install additional packages?
Date: 19 Mar 1995 21:49:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <shamrock-1403951926120001@192.0.2.1>,
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>After installing the bindist, I attempted to install the manpages. I used
>/sbin/sysinstall as per the faq. The only two options that related to what
>I wanted to do were "full install" and "fix-it" mode. Since I didn't want

For 2.0R and the last snapshot, sysinstall should be regarded as a one-shot
deal.  Please do not attempt to use it again.  We've said it quite a few
times in public, but apparently the information ages fast and we're going to
need to put it in a FAQ or something (e.g. this is not your fault and I'm
not flaming you).

To install an additional *dist after your 2.x system is already up, just
run the extract.sh script by hand (sh ./extract.sh).  It will do the rest.

In 2.1, it will be possible to reenter the system installation utility
again to do system updates and the like.

					Jordan