Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:51:42 -0400 From: "Dylan Cochran" <heliocentric@gmail.com> To: "Bob Richards" <bob@tamara-b.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A New FreeBSD Server Message-ID: <bdf82f800606291951m4cde4691m384d887309568495@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44A06AD3.4070208@tamara-b.org> References: <449D8616.5040306@tamara-b.org> <17565.37706.966913.737964@bhuda.mired.org> <20060625064303.GR19592@silverwraith.com> <44A06AD3.4070208@tamara-b.org>
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On 6/26/06, Bob Richards <bob@tamara-b.org> wrote: > > [...] > > OK; Install "successfully" completed, want to add APPS? Sure! Why not! So I > picked out > some editors and shells I use all the time, and PORTS went out to get > them..... at this > point, my DSL connecton went down! Damn! I reset the router, and back > up..... BUT An IP > change occurred and the download from the FTP site never continued! I could > do nothing > except "ABORT" the install! So fine! I aborted..... Since I had received the > "Congratulations" on an Install message, I "ASSUMED" all I had to do was > re-boot from HD > and go to SYSINSTALL and complete the install. NOT! With packages installed from the ftp servers (not from the cdl; as the packages on the cd will generally match the package list at the time of disk fabrication), it's usually simpler to not install binary packages until after the first boot. sysinstall can be run at any time after the install and work fine (though not for disk slicing/labeling on the boot drive). It will not only 'solve' strange problems with regards to sysinstall's package error handling, but it will also let you multitask while the Really Big Meta-Packages (gnome, kde) download, which can take hours on some connections/servers. For reference, pkg_add -r portname (ex. pkg_add -r gnome) seems to be the canonical way to install binary packages from the web. sysinstall's a not-to-pretty hack of a binary that filled a need and was user friendly and stable enough, not really flexible beyond installing things off a dos partition or cd.
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