Hi Crew,
Firstly, I'm an old hand who ran FreeBSD servers from '98 to 2020, but fell ill in 2017, now living in a care home attached to a small rural hospital. I'm short of breath, but still have a small collection of marbles
My only net connection is mobile phone over very marginal rural links, and l need to be able to install Xorg, KDE, Firefox, docs, maybe other packages from the DVD1 image, booted from USB, on a refurb Thinkpad T430s.
Now, I realise I'm already in peril of breaking Forum rules on my very first post, i.e.
"Installing and upgrading the FreeBSD base system. Do not post questions about ports or packages here."
However I plead that this and the more detailed sticky post from October 2014 do not cover the situation: my problem is with a failure of operation of bsdinstall and bsdconfig on the release media, and I'm in need of advice from someone knowing that system to proceed, after I've spent days exploring that code without enlightenment.
The base system install worked fine, and that to slice 4 of a shrunk Win10 system with 32GB common FAT32 partition, so I can leave the results of my longterm project accessible to my Win- and Mac-using family,
However the post-install packages menu (and the docs section during install) refused to work without net connection, despite the detail description under 'dvd1' at
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/announce/
I know, already TL;DR and I'm just starting. I'd post to questions@ but really can't deal with so much mail until I've a mailer going. So first off, is it ok if I proceed here?
TIA, Ian
Firstly, I'm an old hand who ran FreeBSD servers from '98 to 2020, but fell ill in 2017, now living in a care home attached to a small rural hospital. I'm short of breath, but still have a small collection of marbles
My only net connection is mobile phone over very marginal rural links, and l need to be able to install Xorg, KDE, Firefox, docs, maybe other packages from the DVD1 image, booted from USB, on a refurb Thinkpad T430s.
Now, I realise I'm already in peril of breaking Forum rules on my very first post, i.e.
"Installing and upgrading the FreeBSD base system. Do not post questions about ports or packages here."
However I plead that this and the more detailed sticky post from October 2014 do not cover the situation: my problem is with a failure of operation of bsdinstall and bsdconfig on the release media, and I'm in need of advice from someone knowing that system to proceed, after I've spent days exploring that code without enlightenment.
The base system install worked fine, and that to slice 4 of a shrunk Win10 system with 32GB common FAT32 partition, so I can leave the results of my longterm project accessible to my Win- and Mac-using family,
However the post-install packages menu (and the docs section during install) refused to work without net connection, despite the detail description under 'dvd1' at
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/announce/
I know, already TL;DR and I'm just starting. I'd post to questions@ but really can't deal with so much mail until I've a mailer going. So first off, is it ok if I proceed here?
TIA, Ian