Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / thanks for responding


From: Rob Lytle
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:59 PM
To: Sean Cavanaugh ; freebsd-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxx ; freebsd-current@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / thanks for responding


Thanks Sean,

This is the first time I ever actually downloaded all 3 CD's so i didn't know what I was getting into. I had always just used the first CD for the initial install, then ports for everything else. Next time I will use the dvd. Actually that would have been perfect as I got one of those unusual 550kB/s connections from ftp, lol.

But I decided this time to get as many packages as quickly as possible, then run portupgrade on them to get the latest versions. I just did a make buildworld and made the kernel. Now I'm waiting here to do the make installworld after I go shopping.

Plus its so hot here in Oregon I have to put the fan on my Sony VAIO SZ460N/C laptop. Its small but overheats, esp when using the NVidea graphics, so I use the i810 instead.

I'm having problems with portupgrade though. Something got screwed up so a bunch of package compiles are failing. Most all of KDE is in there but it wont start and doesn't even give error messages, even when started with the console. In contrast Windowmaker works fine, so that is what I'm using now.

I got another copy of ports.tar.gz as perhaps the old copy was corrupted, so after world gets installed, I will try portupgrade again.

Sincerely, Rob


try 'portsnap'. it will maintain your /usr/ports folder for you. or use 'cvsup' on it. there are much better ways to maintain your ports folder without resorting to downloading the hideous ports.tar.gz file and extracting it.
You also might want to remove and reinstall kde if its screwing up for you

-Sean

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