Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install


=0A=0A--- Gio 29/12/11, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> ha scritto:=0A=0A> >=
 FWIW;=0A> >=0A> > I have practically given up on installing FreeBSD=0A> la=
tely=0A> > and I mostly use PC-BSD. I mainly see two big issues:=0A> >=0A> =
> -X.Org has become very difficult to install. Setting=0A> up=0A> > hald an=
d friends, not to mention that you have to=0A> > choose carefully your hard=
ware previously. It's a=0A> > nightmare.=0A> =0A> I've not found that... in=
stalling xorg-drivers with the=0A> correct options is hassle-free... have y=
ou posted these=0A> problems to -x11@?=0A>=0A=0AHmm.. I think it was 8.2 an=
d "X.org -configure" didn't=0Agive me a working screen, and then I discover=
ed I had to=0Abe using hald, it was painful and I starting keeping a=0Acopy=
 of my working configuration in a USB mem. TBH the=0A-x11 guys were really =
doing their own homework keeping up=0Awith linux and I was able to find out=
 the information on=0Athe net.=0A=0AI use the nvidia driver, no idea what p=
eople with ATI=0Acards do.=0A=0A=0A> > - I am OK with sysinstall disappeari=
ng: however it=0A> was=0A> > nice to have all the setup tools in one place.=
 How am=0A> > I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the=0A> myriad=
=0A> > of dependencies) from now on? Ports are cool but=0A> having=0A> > to=
 wait to rebuild gcc to be able to use scilab is a=0A> > nonsense.=0A> =0A>=
 Use packages, we do do them!=0A>=0A=0AOf course, but no idea how to use th=
em without=0Asysinstall's post-install configuration screen: it=0Awas just =
too easy.=0A=0AI hope I don't have to start downloading manually all=0Athe =
prepackaged dependencies (I still do that with=0AJava and it's not nice).=
=0A=0APedro.
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