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Date:      Tue, 12 May 2009 08:39:52 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
Message-ID:  <200905120840.02575.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111941340.6352@localhost>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111045470.4982@localhost> <200905112334.03387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111941340.6352@localhost>

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On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are
> > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the
> > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful.
> >
> > FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into
> > your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please
> > stop.
>
> i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of
> wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please.

Like I said, install a release and upgrade that.

You could try finding a -current snap that does work, but it's probably=20
going to be quicker to just get the latest 7 release, install and then=20
cvsup/csup to HEAD then build & install.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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