> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700 > From: "Rob Lytle" <jan6146_at_gmail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org > > Hi All, > > I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war. All I wanted was two things: 1. > CD's that installed without being switched in and out dozens of times. That > was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD. I didn't even know the DVD > install existed, but will do that next time. You call this a flame war? It's been pretty civil and there are no scorch marks on my display. I agree that the disk swapping is not a good thing, but I simply avoid it by never installing packages from sysinstall. I only use sysinstall for FreeBSD. Once I have FreeBSD installed, I update my ports tree with csup (but portsnap is probably a better way) and install ruby and portupgrade. Then I simply install the ports/packages I want using 'portinstall -P'. This assures that I have the latest ports and not something stale. I can speed the process by copying all of the packages from CD to my system (/usr/ports/packages/All). That way, only ports that have been updated since the release will be downloaded and I only have to change CDs a couple of times. > 2. Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a dependency > is already present. Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to install gigantic > packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE metapackage, and my > notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or thereabout. That is one hell > of a long compile time. For this request I will just have to wait for > FreeBSD 10.0. I have not seen this, but I don't sue sysinstall to install packages/ports. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman_at_es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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