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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading from a Miminal installation (also: NeXTUSA keymap?)
Date: 30 Jul 1995 11:54:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3vfl9e$jki@mars.mcs.com>, Font <font@MCS.COM> wrote:
>After having successfully installed a Minimal installation, I'm
>interested in installing more FreeBSD parts, such as manpages, and
>src.  Is there a way to install these parts without redoing the
>installation?  If so, how should I proceed?  Feel free to refer me to
>any FAQs; I have been unable to locate information on this topic so
>far.  Thanks very much.

This is one of those things I wanted to have working all nice and
tidy for 2.0.5 but didn't quite make it..  There is too much stuff
in sysinstall (which lives in /stand) that expects you to do everything
in one pass, though I suppose you could try it by visiting the partition
and label screens but not actually doing anything, then going on to select
the dists you wanted and saying "proceed".

I'm definitely working now on making sysinstall far more "granular"
so that you can use it to do things like this after installation.
In fact, many of those changes are in the latest 2.1 snapshot.

					Jordan