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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
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Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
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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, ...