About more half one part during installing my FreeBSD7.0_BETA4 ,
some thing wrong happened : "unable to open the packages files /INDEX selected from you media"
so what should I do ,just tell me the way to deal with the problem ,thanks. (1 Reply)
about more half one part during installing my FreeBSD7.0_BETA4 ,some thing wrong happened : "unable to open the packages files /INDEX selected from you media" so what should I do ,just tell me the way to deal with the problem ,thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I need one help... Is there any command on solaris 10 to free the ports.
For e.g I used netstat -na| grep 8080
it displays either it is listening or established..
i want to free the ports...
Anyone please help me on this...
Thanks,
Shanmuga (2 Replies)
Hi,
Am using FreeBSD7.4/i386
I forgot to install ports,
So now trying to install them using "portsnap fetch"
I get the output as
Help me to sort out this.. (3 Replies)
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I have two laptops one office and one personal. The office laptop is a Lenovo T430s 16GB RAM running Windows 7 and the Personal Laptop is a hp Pavilion dm4 Laptop dual booted with Windows 7 and Fedora 14.
I have 3 music collections, one on my personal Laptop, one on office Laptop and... (3 Replies)
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This is regarding a suggestion to create a sub forum for those THREADS which have been rated 3 or more stars out of 5(Off-course good threads only). As we all know we have thread rating system in each thread, so to have a collections of all those threads which had been rated good, so... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
sysinst
SYSINST(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SYSINST(8)NAME
sysinst -- install or upgrade a NetBSD system
SYNOPSIS
sysinst [-D] [-f deffile] [-r releasename]
DESCRIPTION
sysinst is a menu-based program that may be used to install or upgrade a NetBSD system. It is usually invoked automatically when the system
is booted from appropriate installation media.
sysinst is usually not present on a NetBSD system that has been fully installed.
OPTIONS -D Switch on debugging.
-r releasename Set the releasename if it is different to the one compiled. Currently unused.
-f deffile Set a file for definitions other than the defaults. See DEFINITION FILE for its format.
DEFINITION FILE
The definition file is used to set several other names and directories to search for. You can specify any of the options in the file. They
are stored as:
option = value
pairs. In this description, REL and MACH are the release and architecture respectively, determined by the image sysinst is used on.
option name default value description
release REL Release name (also set by -r releasename).
machine MACH Machine architecture
xfer dir /usr/INSTALL Transfer dir
ext dir Extract dir (will usually be set later on)
ftp host ftp.NetBSD.org ftp host for fetching files
ftp dir pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-REL ftp directory for fetching files
ftp prefix /MACH/binary/sets directory to look for sets. Note that this is used for all kinds of fetching (CDs, local FS,
...), not only ftp.
ftp user ftp ftp user for connecting
ftp pass - ftp password
ftp proxy - ftp proxy
nfs host - nfs host for fetching via nfs
nfs dir /bsd/release nfs directory for fetching files
cd dev cd0a name of the CD device for fetching files
fd dev /dev/fd0a name of floppy for fetching files
local dev - Other device to be mounted for fetching files
local fs ffs FS-type for local dev
local dir release Directory to look for in the mounted local fs
targetroot mount /targetroot Directory to mount target root dir to
dist postfix .tgz Suffix of set files to be extracted
diskname mydisk disktab(5) diskname to use for target disk
SEE ALSO release(7), afterboot(8), boot(8), diskless(8)
<machine>/INSTALL.* files on CD-ROM installation media .../NetBSD-<rel>/<machine>/INSTALL.* files in NetBSD releases or snapshots.
HISTORY
A sysinst command appeared in NetBSD 1.3.
BSD September 17, 2011 BSD