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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!news From: rlee11@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Having Problems Installing From DOS partition. Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:36:51 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4pn9go$8iv@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <4pdr81$3bb@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <31BB19E2.764D@www.play-hookey.com> <4pi82i$jcs@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <31BD0294.3EA@www.play-hookey.com> <31BE2C52.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mvo-ca6-02.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Jun 12 3:32:24 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: Jordan, Great, I'll give this a try, Thanks! Rick >Or, in any of the later snaps (2.1 or 2.2), type: > /stand/sysinstall configPackages >Actually, it now works well enough that you may use it for adding new >distributions and packages, configuring the system (yes, even adding a >second disk :-), etc. I've put a fair bit of work into it to make it >more useful in the post-installation scenario than it ever has been in >the past. >/stand/sysinstall now has "shortcuts" you can use to run parts of it >directly, e.g. the `configPackages' example I gave above. For a full >list (sorry, no man page yet) see /usr/src/release/sysinstall/dispatch.c >(the source remains always the best reference :-). I hope that this >will make it more useful in shell functions and user-provided aliases.