From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 08:54:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BE9106566B for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:54:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidianwalker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD04E8FC13 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so5668699iah.13 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of davidianwalker@gmail.com designates 10.43.44.69 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.43.44.69; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of davidianwalker@gmail.com designates 10.43.44.69 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=davidianwalker@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=davidianwalker@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.43.44.69]) by 10.43.44.69 with SMTP id uf5mr10739742icb.41.1330851264192 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:54:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZZF+HCdpUXlyfJh/Cht1ejO81GohGCrLNYC960AtKFU=; b=vpbx+fXsaMTXLuO+ZazeF0vvTcYobzW4pmeTziVvPfHBF8lFRdgpUpDZyHuhdUhg4A oHlpLZn4gmNbwpMitIf1MWH5nXh1VMl6aJxq8enNAwiXFmmWB5wLHIA979JPDabzR1M/ 5eKrkoftpgkXg2C0IC2876hoVCxeCjQDJHTs2kFTQJ32akp1hGUQXHKpk+o/8hbbKFXT Fhm7AtU80izqzf2F/UsNiG5zvEHIKb0gOoIzYvK0A/6QAQaBLWic+rGxlPi6AzZb+9lc vSKypGKwZwmleo34z6WDTnuiYfz4woC3yvLT58uQmfdMPOEsRdW+HWvYkAqr7jb6naPY oANA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.44.69 with SMTP id uf5mr8824891icb.41.1330851264062; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.96.6 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 00:54:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:24:23 +1030 Message-ID: From: David Walker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:54:25 -0000 Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 nzp at riseup.net > If you did it the normal way Please define normal. As per the way you do it? Surely that's not what you mean right? As per the handbook? As per the man pages? As per the way I usually do it? I'm new here so I don't have a normal way other than spending hours reading documentation ... and telling myself that everything that goes wrong is probably my fault. That's my normal way when I'm using new software. That's also my normal way when I'm familiar with something. Please tell me if that methodology is not as good as yours ... > with bsdinstall then I guess everything > would install correctly. I guess that also. Please read man sysinstall for me and point out why I should be guessing whether or not system utilities are intended to function as described. Replies to the list are fine. > But anyway, you can use the other methods > mentioned in the handbook. ... and anyway, if cp(1) fails I can use dump(8) instead. Problem solved. > Doing it with > # portsnap fetch extract > seems the most straight forward way to me. Sysinstall seems the most straight forward way to me. It might be of interest to you that after spending an hour or so with sysinstall I proceeded to spend an hour or so with portsnap before it appeared to work. My undocumented experience with it and what you apparently consider are normal and/or straight forward, seem, under the circumstances, of no import. If you want to espouse an opposing view without explanation or ridicule my methodology, knock yourself out but please do it like I'm your friend. A simple "use portsnap you clown" probably would have done it for me and put a smile on my face. In my experience that's the "normal" and "most straight forward" way someone who respects me might approach this ... Best wishes.