Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:27:36 +0000 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) Message-ID: <E0xyFXk-0001Qm-00@ash2.doc.ic.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> "Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-))" (Jan 29, 5:12pm)
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On Jan 29, 5:12pm, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) > And where's Java's curses based interface so that all those folks > installing FreeBSD from serial consoles can still do so? > > A) There aren't enough of those people to matter, because there > are - most ISPs who really know what they're doing have rack- > mounted their PCs long ago and do not have VGA monitors or > > B) That we should do two interfaces, one for each group, because > that requires too much duplication of effort. We can't even That depends on how you approach it, you could have an X based interactive installation program and a script driven automatic installation, if you do it right they can both share a lot of the code. Niall
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