From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 07:00:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45A21065675 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCB98FC12 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-27-202.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.27.202]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF839A22; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n3N70Qt2001645; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:26 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Matthew Seaman Message-Id: <20090423090026.384ebd20.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49F00004.50509@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <49EF82B2.2040807@gmail.com> <49EF98C6.2060902@virtualhost.nl> <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr> <49F00004.50509@infracaninophile.co.uk> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Manolis Kiagias , questions@freebsd.org, VirtualHost , Wojciech Puchar Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:34 -0000 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:43:32 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > So long as it maintains two other really useful features of the existing > sysinstall: [...] > * 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. Exactly, that would be my point, too: FIRST do the interaction, do ALL the interaction and do it "in one chunk". THEN start installing everything that's needed by the choices done. This would include additional packages required by certain services. As an addition, I could imagine a combination of the linear and the hierarchical settings access method. I may draw a silly picture: FreeBSD installer NTP settings 10/28 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable NTP? [x] Yes [ ] No NTP server: [ntpthing.bla.dings.org ]