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

[Sean Cavanaugh]

From: Rob Lytle
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:59 PM
To: Sean Cavanaugh ; freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org ; 
freebsd-current at freebsd.org
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