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From: mconst@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Constant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1-SNAP install -- packages
Date: 21 Nov 1995 03:05:56 GMT
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Vegetables, UC Berkeley
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Peter Berger <peterb@tcptest.psc.edu> wrote:
>One question: is there any way (or any plans!) to make the shell for
>installing pacakges/distributions standalone? ie, while running a
>normal kernel, pull up a window that will ftp in, list the packages,
>and let me choose which ones I want and download them?
Yup, /stand/sysinstall runs fine from an xterm! Just make sure that
you've uncompressed the utilities in /stand (or that your kernel can
directly execute gzipped binaries).
--
Michael Constant (mconst@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)