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From: pavanas@nomina.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: infinite loop in sysinstall
Date: 9 May 1997 17:57:09 GMT
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On 6 May 1997 17:10:33 GMT,
 pavanas abludo incusus <pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> mused and hath written:

this is an update.

>On Sun, 04 May 1997 17:20:26 -0700,
> Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> mused and hath written:
>
>>gary brant wrote:
>>
>just spent the last several days installing FreeBSD-2.2.1 on two hdds.
>(1st and 3rd booteasy on 1st) installing BSD on the 2nd hdd is not worth
>the effort. i did notice one particular point that did lunch the install -
>installing mingetty. after restarting (shutdown -r now) then returning to
>/stand/sysinstall i skipped that and installed the packages one group at a
>time i.e. networks, editors etc and it all went well. it may seem tedious
>but it worked. tedium beats the endless install reinstall cycle.  
>>
well it now appears that it is not a specific package that lunches the
installation process. it just happens? 

on a running system i was attempting with /stand/sysinstall to add the
Linux lib pkg (from memory may not be exact name) and i got the message
file system full. oops. i checked with `df' and saw `/ Capacity 109%'.
that was that. does anyone know why? it does become a little old to keep
re-doing the install. the option choice was /tmp/usr.

is it better to use the 2nd cdrom with the live file system?
>
>now all i need to do is figure out how to fire up pppd and get connected.
>
>btw once the concept sinks in the `stand/sysinstall' setup is great.
>
the `stand/sysinstall' is great when it works. it is a horror when
something goes awry.
>>-- 
>>- Jordan Hubbard
>>  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.
>
>
>cheers
>
>(if you can read the path you can figure out the address)


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IHS
pavanas
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