A New FreeBSD Server

On 6/26/06, Bob Richards <bobtamara-b.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> OK; Install "successfully" completed, want
to add APPS? Sure! Why not! So I
> picked out
> some editors and shells I use all the time, and PORTS
went out to get
> them..... at this
> point, my DSL connecton went down! Damn! I reset the
router, and back
> up..... BUT An IP
> change occurred and the download from the FTP site
never continued!  I could
> do nothing
> except "ABORT" the install! So fine! I
aborted..... Since I had received the
> "Congratulations" on an Install message, I
"ASSUMED" all I had to do was
> re-boot from HD
> and go to SYSINSTALL and complete the install. NOT!

With packages installed from the ftp servers (not from the
cdl; as the
packages on the cd will generally match the package list at
the time
of disk fabrication),  it's usually simpler to not install
binary
packages until after the first boot. sysinstall can be run
at any time
after the install and work fine (though not for disk
slicing/labeling
on the boot drive).

It will not only 'solve' strange problems with regards to
sysinstall's
package error handling, but it will also let you multitask
while the
Really Big Meta-Packages (gnome, kde) download, which can
take hours
on some connections/servers.

For reference, pkg_add -r portname (ex. pkg_add -r gnome)
seems to be
the canonical way to install binary packages from the web.
sysinstall's a not-to-pretty hack of a binary that filled a
need and
was user friendly and stable enough, not really flexible
beyond
installing things off a dos partition or cd.
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