Sysinstall

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 15:51:12 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly
>> in need of 'Death'.
>>
>> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it?
>>
>> Is there a replacement in the works?
>>
>> -Grant
>
> Actually, the more  use it, the more I like it ..
>
> The only con that I find is that I don't whether it's possible to install
> Postfix instead of Sendmail by default, thus getting completely rid of
> Sendmail on my FreeBSD installs. But that probably something that I'm
> missing.
>
> Regards
> --
> Blessings
> Gonzalo Nemmi

In the curses-based sysinstall of later versions of FBSD (7+, I think
- haven't done 6 in a while) I do indeed select postfix to install, or
no MTA at all, then add postfix later. Depends on my mood...

Kurt


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