Installing FreeBSD Manually

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Even FreeBSD would be proud. I read they been over-hauling sysinstall but for now here's another FBSD loving critic.

It even gives you an idea of how many other things work. Chroot, Jail, geom_mirror. I have not tried this yet because I'm into multi-FreeBSD-installs but I think this can be incorporated with help from other who only need a clue. But whatever the case every newbee need a taste of this... and best of all; ic2 don't need to say another word :)

http://bsdtips.utcorp.net/mediawiki/index.php/Helio/man-install
 
I believe the sysinstall is very simple and fast so if I have it I use it.
However my older box indeed dislikes sysinstall and hangs with this message: ...Probing devices... (hang) Segmentation fault. Core dumped...
Trying invoke sysinstall from installation leads sometimes to the same message sometimes to panic.
That's true for 7.x and 8.0-current. Miraculously 6.4's sysinstall goes through without problems. This eliminates troubles, but if imagine that I don't have 6.4 CD then theoretically it's indeed interesting how to install without even starting sysinstall:)
 
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