Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:43:32 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, questions@freebsd.org, VirtualHost <jeroen@virtualhost.nl> Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? Message-ID: <49F00004.50509@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr> References: <BLU0-SMTP493F2C64E33D39A37EF75DD8740@phx.gbl> <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <49EF82B2.2040807@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904222316130.3543@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49EF98C6.2060902@virtualhost.nl> <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Personally, I would like a text installer using a previous/next approach
> that would give me options like:
>
> - Install a Complete FreeBSD Base System => Subchoices: install
> everything or select base system components
> - Install Additional Software Packages
> - Configure other services
> - Help
>
> and that would allow someone to go back and forth between the pages
So long as it maintains two other really useful features of the existing
sysinstall:
* scriptable installs -- ie. being able to preload a file containing
answers to any or all installation choices. Ideally you should be
able to PXE boot the installer over a network, whence it runs sysinstall
automatically to build a system without further operator intervention.
* You answer all of the questions first, and only then does the installer
commit any irreversible changes -- and particularly not any operations
that take appreciable lengths of time like creating filesystems or
downloading voluminous install sets.
The ability to whiz through sysinstall, set everything up and hit 'go',
then deal with something else while the machine is chuntering away to itself
is a real godsend.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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