Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:23:20 -0500 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, "Gonzalo Nemmi" <gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall Message-ID: <FE67F5CA95E4456DA0C994DEC531E66E@GRANTPC> References: <4C17D6F9D67D4A79814EB2EBA8004034@GRANTPC><200901072114.18255.gnemmi@gmail.com> <a9f4a3860901071551k4e8dd0b7r92458c3d57e15ab@mail.gmail.com>
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Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still remains: How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility? -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "Gonzalo Nemmi" <gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Sysinstall > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is >>> greatly >>> in need of 'Death'. >>> >>> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? >>> >>> Is there a replacement in the works? >>> >>> -Grant >> >> Actually, the more use it, the more I like it .. >> >> The only con that I find is that I don't whether it's possible to install >> Postfix instead of Sendmail by default, thus getting completely rid of >> Sendmail on my FreeBSD installs. But that probably something that I'm >> missing. >> >> Regards >> -- >> Blessings >> Gonzalo Nemmi > > In the curses-based sysinstall of later versions of FBSD (7+, I think > - haven't done 6 in a while) I do indeed select postfix to install, or > no MTA at all, then add postfix later. Depends on my mood... > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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