Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:21:12 +0000 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation messup Message-ID: <425D6318.3000508@chuckr.org>
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I have a problem to fix in an installation I just did, and I need to know if it's possible to misuse/abuse sysinstall in the manner I need to. I was putting a copy of FreeBSD into a system of a friend. hhis system is based on scsi, and I couldn't seem to get it to boot from ide, so instead of using the ide drive he'd given me, I installed FreeBSD into a drive I gave him. Smallish, but 9 Gigs is more than enough for a nice FreeBSD system, and besides, it woud compare better against the scsi based Windows install that he's going to be comparing it to. So, I did the install, and booted it twice, just to make sure. I had installed KDE, and I was amazed to see that the install worked like a miracle, all the way to the last KDE detail. Unfortunately, when he came 2 days later to pick up the machine, now at the disk manager f1 prompt, it's giving me a symbol that is like F(down-arrow), and I didn't even realize that the system could produce that down-arrow character. Well, so I figure that the best idea is to reinstall the disk manager. If I go into the "experts" install, can I get it to install just the disk manager only?
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