From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 04:30:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20044 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 04:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (rfiXH2z3GLs1IkA1SjczMGFxFEhLaGo1@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA20038 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 04:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from ash2.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.16.30] ([H+oz1gTTGsHcx6XoF5IgMDUy4yC2xh7N]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0xyFZL-0007Z9-00; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:29:16 +0000 Received: from njs3 by ash2.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xyFXk-0001Qm-00; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:27:36 +0000 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:27:36 +0000 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-))" (Jan 29, 5:12pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" 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