Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:57:25 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: tobier@tobier.se Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall for just installing? Message-ID: <4BFEA475.3090607@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <e0e937d11b29a37fe3d1cee2514416a9.squirrel@squirrel-webmail.surftown.com> References: <e0e937d11b29a37fe3d1cee2514416a9.squirrel@squirrel-webmail.surftown.com>
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On 27/05/2010 09:27, Tobias Eriksson wrote: > I've been thinking a bit about sysinstall. > What do we really want to do with it? > See, the way I use sysinstall is just to install my system, I never use it > after an install, so to me it seems pointless having it on there after I > have my system up and going. Of course this is just me, maybe many out > there use sysinstall daily. > > What I'm getting at is that maybe sysinstall should be more tailored to > just installing: make it more straightforward to the user. Start with > setting up the keyboard and language, then maybe the NIC menu as described > in earlier posts, and then move on to partitioning and package installing. > > Is it just me that thinks like this, or do you have similar thoughts? > It seems to be recommended to only use it for installing, and to use other tools for post-configuration: for example the partitioning section has been copied out into usr.sbin/sade. It should definitely be more straightforward, without the baffling list of options and settings: for example I had a discussion with someone recently who rightly thought that users shouldn't have to go into the FixIt menu when they've already loaded the LiveFS CD - it should be more or less automatic. Whether this gets fixed is another matter: apparently one of the discussions at BSDCan was about having the PC-BSD installer be the primary method for installing 9.0, with FreeBSD's sysinstall being available if users need it. -- Bruce Cran
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