From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 23:23:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8FC1065672 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:23:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-hackers@mawer.org) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BDD8FC18 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:23:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-hackers@mawer.org) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApQAAHSja0jLzq3r/2dsb2JhbAAIsjc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,739,1204470000"; d="scan'208";a="351572940" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.24.1.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 03 Jul 2008 06:54:11 +0800 Message-ID: <486C0699.6070006@mawer.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:52:09 +1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Penner References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <486BFE3B.3040509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <486BFE3B.3040509@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jan6146@gmail.com Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:23:53 -0000 Curtis Penner wrote: > Let us take this further. ... > When you do a system install it is like jumping back to the 80's. The > front-end is like something from the DOS days. You have to be tech > savvy to know what you want to do. ... > I am looking forward to a time when installing BSD is point and click > with not much understanding of what is going on (unless I want to go > advance and do special custom work). Ivan Voras has done some great work on addressing this with his finstall project: http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall --Antony