installation messup
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Wed Apr 13 11:21:32 PDT 2005
I have a problem to fix in an installation I just did, and I need to
know if it's possible to misuse/abuse sysinstall in the manner I need to.
I was putting a copy of FreeBSD into a system of a friend. hhis system
is based on scsi, and I couldn't seem to get it to boot from ide, so
instead of using the ide drive he'd given me, I installed FreeBSD into a
drive I gave him. Smallish, but 9 Gigs is more than enough for a nice
FreeBSD system, and besides, it woud compare better against the scsi
based Windows install that he's going to be comparing it to.
So, I did the install, and booted it twice, just to make sure. I had
installed KDE, and I was amazed to see that the install worked like a
miracle, all the way to the last KDE detail. Unfortunately, when he
came 2 days later to pick up the machine, now at the disk manager f1
prompt, it's giving me a symbol that is like F(down-arrow), and I didn't
even realize that the system could produce that down-arrow character.
Well, so I figure that the best idea is to reinstall the disk manager.
If I go into the "experts" install, can I get it to install just the
disk manager only?
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