Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:01:44 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.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: <CAOjFWZ5kWsxPbNLBu%2BB01v0DN7z4RZVyAHzWv2biV6iOck__Rw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E2CA4A7.7020100@fuzzwad.org> References: <20110724162937.33865zm0kn4ztdwk@econet.encontacto.net> <4E2C8FBE.7040003@freebsd.org> <4E2CA4A7.7020100@fuzzwad.org>
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On Sunday, July 24, 2011, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> wrote: >> > > I'll have to agree with the original poster. I have no problem with the look and feel of the new installer, but when functionality that WAS there is now gone, that's a problem. My two, make that three, biggest gripes are: > > 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. The nice thing about bsdinstall is that every install is identical. It's basically just dumping an image file to disk. > 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. Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to be a Swiss Army knife doing everything, yet not doing any one thing well. It made a royal mess of rc.conf if you tried to use it to configure a system. Usually the first time someone mentions they use it for post-install configuration, the recommendation is to stop doing that! An os installer should do just that: install the os and nothing else. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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