Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:08:02 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org>, eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> Subject: Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer. Message-ID: <4E2CC1F2.2070607@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E2CC0D0.4090309@cran.org.uk> References: <20110724162937.33865zm0kn4ztdwk@econet.encontacto.net> <4E2C8FBE.7040003@freebsd.org> <4E2CA4A7.7020100@fuzzwad.org> <4E2CC0D0.4090309@cran.org.uk>
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On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote: >> 1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting >> because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well, >> unacceptable. >> 2) no "minimal" install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task >> servers where I need a base os and a couple ports. >> 3) I see no "post-install" uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be >> used on an up-and-running system to do everything from adding a user >> to changing a nameserver and more. > > Another potential problem is that the new version of libdialog that > the new installer uses changes the way navigation is done: on Linux > and in the previous version on FreeBSD it's possible to press <Tab> to > change focus to the buttons and different UI elements. That doesn't > work any more. > It's a change from before, but a normalization with respect to most Linux distributions, since we are now using the same dialog as, e.g., Debian and Ubuntu. -Nathan
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