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Originally Posted by sgunn
I tried doing a base install of FreeBSD 7.0 onto a machine that had been running 6.0.
It got most of the way through the install and then it failed on a dependency of libgl7.0.
The basic OS excluding X seems to have installed okay. It's pretty disappointing that in 2008 a normal install onto known working and relatively modern hardware fails to successfully install the window manager.
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This is why most advanced users recommend using sysinstall to install the base OS and nothing else. No packages, no ports, no system configuration. Just install the base OS, and reboot. Everything else is done from within the OS itself.
An OS installer should install the OS, configure it enough to get it to boot, and nothing more, IMO.