From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 01:08:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368C0106567A for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082518FC15 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:08:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LOV0060075G8I00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:08:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LOV001SO75E7U10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:08:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:08:02 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4E2CC0D0.4090309@cran.org.uk> To: Bruce Cran Message-id: <4E2CC1F2.2070607@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.7.25.10022, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: <20110724162937.33865zm0kn4ztdwk@econet.encontacto.net> <4E2C8FBE.7040003@freebsd.org> <4E2CA4A7.7020100@fuzzwad.org> <4E2CC0D0.4090309@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110704 Thunderbird/5.0 Cc: freebsd-current , Ron McDowell , eculp Subject: Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:08:07 -0000 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 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