From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 23:21:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09961 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09949 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA23454 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:21:19 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13947 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:21:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA04906 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:09:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608160609.IAA04906@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: sysconfig To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:09:48 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Edwin Burley at "Aug 15, 96 06:09:24 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Edwin Burley wrote: > NO..I said goto /etc and open it with jove/xemacs/vi etc... Yep, i can read. :-) > and edit the file by hand.... this way he/his does not have to run > /stand/sysinstall again...because you can over write very easy with > the sysinstall..... However, editing /etc/sysconfig is only a minor piece of work that /stand/sysinstall does. For example, you can also use the latter now to integrate a new disk, or to manage ports and package installation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)