Solved Where is /stand/sysinstall now?

Keve

Keve

At the end of a new FreeBSD install, just before the first reboot, there is a CLI menu to add users, configure mouse, go to shell, etc.
I was hoping to get into THAT menu today, under a fairly fresh install of FreeBSD 13.1R.
Last time I did that, I just run /stand/sysinstall. But there is obviously no /stand/sysinstall there any more.
I checked what is in /rescue, /bin, /sbin, but nothing looks promising.
Help me out, please! What's the command now to get into THAT menu?
 
Keve said:
At the end of a new FreeBSD install, just before the first reboot, there is a CLI menu to add users, configure mouse, go to shell, etc.
I was hoping to get into THAT menu today, under a fairly fresh install of FreeBSD 13.1R.
Last time I did that, I just run /stand/sysinstall. But there is obviously no /stand/sysinstall there any more.
I checked what is in /rescue, /bin, /sbin, but nothing looks promising.
Help me out, please! What's the command now to get into THAT menu?
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Found it, /usr/sbin/bsdinstall.
 
I was going to mention that /usr/src/stand/ is generally where bootloaders reside.
hier(7)
It is possible sysinstall code was moved there before removal.
 
It looks like I celebrated too soon, bsdinstall is not what I am after. This takes me to the beginning of an installation and expects me to go through all the steps. I am on an already installed system, and hope to get to the last step configuration menu to apply settings to my existing system.
But now I feel even more lost, and still could use some help to get where I want to. Suggestions?

The current handbook appears to cover this in section

2.8.6. Final Configuration​

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-post​

But I am not sure if I would find mouse configuration and the like there any more.
I remembered that vidfont is the command to configure console fonts. So that is done now, and I also added the allscreens_flag to my rc.conf. But I am still looking to find the moused configuration menu (assuming that still exists).
 
I managed to get the pointer working on the console.
Man moused and man atp helped, after finding in dmesg that I have a built-in keyboard/mouse combo device of some kind and they both appear to be USB devices. I also use usbconfig to find that I need atp0.
So now I have a pointer on the console, but it still does not work under xorg. However, xorg seems to have other issues on this particular machine (a 2007 MacBook, the white plastic), as the modesetting i915 driver displays only total blackness. Installing and using xf86-video-intel displays a visible screen, but without a mouse. But that is for tomorrow, likely fiddling with the creation of an xorg.conf.d pointer file. I am done for today.
 
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