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Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install



On 06/18/15 20:22, Greg Troxel wrote:
"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> writes:

Only partly joking, more to indicate 'no offense intended'. The man
pages are quite useful & accurate, but mute on the interaction between
installer & commands invoked from the shell under the installer (for
example). I apparently got in trouble by rebooting from the invoked
shell rather than 'ctrl-D'-ing back to the installer (definitely pilot
error, but too easy to do), leaving things unbootable until I use
another USB installer to zero out enough of the 2 offending drives to
be able to boot the installer again. Again, no biggie, but a bit more
discussion somewhere might have kept me out of the drink.
A fair point, but this all belongs in the installer documentation, as
the commands are part of base and the installer is on top, logically.

Agreed, 300 %, but it (the documntation) belongs .... somewhere .... I missed it & got snared, shouldn't have happened. I *think* (& I will know this weekend) the FreeBSD installer reminds one to 'ctrl-D' out, rather than rebooting .... I did this box late last summer, same protocol, shell out to do the (rather fancy) partitioning, then finish the install, but it conveniently reminded me to 'ctrl-D' out, rather than reboot .... again, a minor doc issue, but eminently redressable if I am right ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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