Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:07:27 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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: <20090423090727.c3460e7d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49F01208.2080705@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> <20090423084637.eb58cbe1.freebsd@edvax.de> <49F01208.2080705@otenet.gr>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:24 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > The text installer should always be the default, IMHO. A GUI installer > should be selectable i.e. from the boot options. > I hope Ivan Voras finds the time to continue with the finstall project, > it looked very promising: > > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-02-19.what-happened-to-finstall.html As an option, yes; as a replacement... uhm, no, better not... > The problem here is that sysinstall *does* allow you to go back and redo > some steps, but then fails miserably and mysteriously > [...] > ...it does allow you to go back in a sort of way - but then fails many > times to continue normally. I don't deny that fact that this observation is possible, but I never found such a behaviour. Could you provide an example how to create a situation where sysinstall fails as you mentioned it? (It's a completely honest question.) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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