FreeBSD installer: a non-documented feature of bsdinstall

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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:00:20 UTC

On 07/08/2025 02:41, Graham Perrin wrote:

> <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/freebsd_installers_differences_between_the_shell/> 
> was partly …

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/comment/n6y4s5h/> 
(for the live system) shows a bsdinstall(8) target that is not documented:

startbsdinstall

> Subsequent use of the shell, from the welcome dialogue, may fail to 
> present the usual /bin/sh command prompt: …

It's not useless – as shown, commands can be entered in the absence of 
the command prompt.

Incidentally, the manual page lacks a section for bugs,

<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-current#BUGS>