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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.walltech.com!hsnx.wco.com!news.wco.com!news From: "Jeffery T. White" <zellion@cyberwind.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install package after base Date: 2 Nov 1996 19:14:46 GMT Organization: CyberWind Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bbc8f2$26b41ec0$df6d04c7@zellion.cyberwind.com> References: <32796DFE.602F@interramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zellion.cyberwind.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Roger McCarty <mccartyr@interramp.com> wrote in article <32796DFE.602F@interramp.com>... > Suppose I want to install a "base" system, and then > later install just the kernel source & then still later > I want to install only XFree. I can not seem to be able to > get sysinstall to understand what I want to do. It seems > insistent that I *re*install BASE+DICT+INFO+MAN when adding a new Do a custom install and select the distributions from the custom set. Menus: Custom->Distributions->Custom->(whatever you want). Now back up to the Custom Installation Options menu and choose Extract. BE SURE to do the EXTRACT not COMMIT, COMMIT will repartition your drive. -- | Jeffery T. White | email: zellion@cyberwind.com | | Cyberwind, The wind knows... | http://www.cyberwind.com