From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 23:51:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6A61065672 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:51:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BF58FC1F for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so11320943wfg.7 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Obc7poSB1qa1aLXMIhh6pqVwkCbLGfNLmYoZoyG5GRk=; b=nYKRoUK3fT8QC0Gepvtx5XMq75dKmMrr6ptCaTGHhRqQVwf7eS6todIGPH2X8ccUgw QeuVr9bJ837Xpje3p7rKLd0aLbiCvUVT+2qrtPmt/ggCkcE3AWo5kC0RxwDvPGt1jM9A V67S/RSEexygwWg31LhfAQ1U9kQgKoQTU2EIc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=MWDd7Z+T3MRUrENyYlo5v5azk3NxKNEkiXPy4mLIBP5glGhMpG7cOOWZbarDXIyy6F /5Ybe6BVx14VaYmxpOwssf11qLXHr9yKYwibA4Ang+ChlMv8hR8wW0MTNTka+OA9J51Y Lo9Nw1BDZVkao30+bhaj2ji9JuDBKD57OcEBM= Received: by 10.142.177.7 with SMTP id z7mr9882181wfe.132.1231372271354; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.88.17 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:51:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:51:11 -0800 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Gonzalo Nemmi" In-Reply-To: <200901072114.18255.gnemmi@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4C17D6F9D67D4A79814EB2EBA8004034@GRANTPC> <200901072114.18255.gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:51:12 -0000 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly >> in need of 'Death'. >> >> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? >> >> Is there a replacement in the works? >> >> -Grant > > Actually, the more use it, the more I like it .. > > The only con that I find is that I don't whether it's possible to install > Postfix instead of Sendmail by default, thus getting completely rid of > Sendmail on my FreeBSD installs. But that probably something that I'm > missing. > > Regards > -- > Blessings > Gonzalo Nemmi In the curses-based sysinstall of later versions of FBSD (7+, I think - haven't done 6 in a while) I do indeed select postfix to install, or no MTA at all, then add postfix later. Depends on my mood... Kurt