Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:08:41 -0500 (EST) From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com> To: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0412021524070.27619@athena> In-Reply-To: <d9175cad0412021119159070cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <41AE55D7.8020709@freebsd.org> <20041202075530.3b33db1b.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <d9175cad0412021119159070cf@mail.gmail.com>
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> I want to preface by saying that I certainly don't think a GUI > installer should replace what FreeBSD ships with now. Having said > that: It has been suggested in the past, and may as well be suggested > again now, that a liveCD installer be created. I know that amongst > desktop/first-time users this would be a welcome addition. I also > realise that it isn't FreeBSD's main market (though it is a major > consideration). This sort of project could be done with somewhat less > knowledge (I think) than sysinstall itself, and would have many > classes of systems that simply by nature of being a liveCD it wouldn't > have to worry about (I think of headless servers and 486s). Just > thought I would toss the idea out to see what people thought of it at > this point (as I've not heard much about it for a while, and it seems > that many of them were getting ready for 5-STABLE). I like the idea of having a separate boot-CD for those wishing to get a fancy GUI installer -- just so long as you can still boot from CD1 and get a text-based version, no matter how rudimentary.
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