Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:11:58 -0600 (CST) From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: replace sysinstall? please? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112111756160.7818-100000@harper.uchicago.edu>
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Is sysinstall going to be replaced any time soon? FreeBSD desperately needs a better installation program. I'm not saying we need a flashy point-and-click like RedHat, I'm saying that we need an installation program that works well enough so that a 4 year veteran of FreeBSD like myself can install without being completely frustrated. One has to select "cancel" or "exit" when one wants to continue, leading to enormous confusion. And with FreeBSD 4.4-R (I haven't noticed it before) it wouldn't let me continue after selecting a slice - it threw me in a loop which I repeated several times until by accident I selected "install boot loader" instead of "none" for the messing-with-the-MBR stage. It then continued and allowed me to install FreeBSD. And rendered Windows NT and Windows 2000 unbootable. I vaguely understand that some limitations of sysinstall are due to the libraries it uses rather than failings of the programmer (the illustrious JKH, as I recall). But it's still confusing and bad and needs to be replaced. (Apologies for the uneducated argument here, but FreeBSD just killed my NT installation and Galeon is taking 6 years to build [and Konqueror, Opera, and Netscape would all take just as long, requiring linux emulation or kdelibs, etc.], so I haven't got any web access.) -d (cc:, I'm not on -questions.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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