Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hello;

--- Gio 29/12/11, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> ha scritto:

> >
> > I use the nvidia driver, no idea what people with ATI
> > cards do.
> 
> I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with that, if you
> ever want to try again and you can't work it out get me
> off list ;)
>

Getting X11 to run on virtualbox from a FreeBSD 9.0 CD
installation is pretty much a nightmare. Is there something
about it in the users handbook? A wiki page about setting up
X11 on FreeBSD would do it too. Perhaps we should write one.

...
> > I hope I don't have to start downloading manually all
> > the prepackaged dependencies (I still do that with
> > Java and it's not nice).
> 
> Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it
> with something monstrous (like gcc...)
> 

Aha! I guess I just keep doing things the old way then,
the package browser was still very nice but I guess what
is really missing is documentation. How is someone new
to FreeBSD supposed to know what packages are available
and how to install them?

cheers,

Pedro.


> Chris
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