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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!world1.bawave.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What to install with FreeBSD? Date: 18 May 1996 22:35:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4nljb9$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nf96k$m8t@news.indy.net> <319B868F.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <319CCA50.745@mainelink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Gary Chrysler <tcg@mainelink.net> wrote: (Restricted to the FreeBSD group -- i don't think the Linux guys will be that interested in my babble.) > Jordan, A usefull addition to this page would be the hardware settings > sysinstall expects! > > I don't know if > 2.0r's sysinstall is any better but I found it > very anoying to -c the kernel, Set my NIC port, then get to the > part where selecting _WHERE_ to install from only to find out > that it will only work with sysinstall's expected setup! Sysinstall has no other expectations than the kernel itself, and the kernel's ideas can be adjusted fine with -c. However (as you know :), much has been done down the road since 2.0, and in particular, many people will find the new ``visual config'' much useful (boot with -c, then type ``visual'' or simply ``v''). We all don't quite frankly remember about the details of 2.0's brokeness, but as i wrote you in a mail, it was considered rather unpolished and only of about `beta' quality at all. The best advise to give you is to go out and get a 2.1R CD. (The recent SNAP is perhaps not that well for you, it's far more experimental, and several things are known to be broken in it.) The only inconvenience with boot -c at installation time is you have to enter the settings twice: first before starting the installation, and second after the final reboot. As soon as the system came up multi-user for the first time, it will record the changes into the actual /kernel image, and thus remember them by the next boot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)