Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:39:22 +0100 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Jona Joachim <walkingshadow@grummel.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer Message-ID: <200702171239.l1HCdMLK061095@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:41:03 %2B0100." <45D66B3F.6030702@my.domain>
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> Would it be worth considering to provide the BSD Installer [1] as an > alternate choice to sysinstall for a default FreeBSD installation? > I'm sure several people already thought of it and it might be > interesting to hear their conclusions. That would be a decision for release engineers on re@freebsd.org, I'd think they would react: "How many bytes would that cost on boot floppy & cdrom ?" _If_ some space, maybe they might then debate which installer[s]. If you want to make the proposal, re@ would probably want you to analyse space for installer & all libs on each (& which libs were already on boot flop ). It could be there might only be room for a small extra CLI type installer, perhaps like NETBSD had last I looked, & like FreeBSD had pre [libcurses ?] A blind person asked about installers a month ago & I recall similar Q. years back shortly after the curses thing arrived. Back then the answer was: get a sighted person to install it, or if you only have a simple line to braille type adaptor, NetBSD CLI installer (ending with Net not Free installed). -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Vista of viral Bills ? Escape ! http://berklix.com/free-talk-on-free-software/
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