From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 22 11:49:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698FE37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7FD43EB2 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-21-217.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.21.217]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0MJnY3V023300; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:49:35 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Erik Trulsson , Frank Tegtmeyer Subject: Re: sysinstall options Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:49:35 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030122151514.Q54551-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <20030122100404.GA76851@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030122100404.GA76851@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301221349.26134.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:04 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:36AM +0100, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > One additional question: I saw somewhere mentioned that sysinstall is a > > deprecated tool - what would be the replacement? > > There is no replacement for sysinstall. There has been talk about > writing a replacement for sysinstall for as long as I can remember. > (When I got started with FreeBSD the latest release was 3.1) > So far this much desired and much talked about replacement has yet to > materialize. They've been talking about a replacement since JKH wrote sysinstall, since it was never meant to be a permenant solution. However, a replacement won't just "materialize." People need to write it. Some people are - http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html. -David -- "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." -P. J. O'Rourke Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message