Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:19:00 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot <olivier@gautherot.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Subject: Re: Any thoughts on Graphical install UI? Message-ID: <200503100719.01392.olivier@gautherot.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050309223030.053d3010@209.152.117.178> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050309223030.053d3010@209.152.117.178>
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> >Many Linux flavors both commericial and free have attractive UIs for > >installation and package selection, and even to some degree partitioning > >and formatting of hard drives. > > > >Is there any thought of doing this for FreeBSD? Having an attractive > >UI, ala Fedora and/or gentoo would definately help attract more novice > >users to the FreeBSD world. > > The installer for FreeBSD is very configurable. Because of > this, it can be daunting for a new user. I've written up a > procedure, that when taken step-by-step will get you a running > system in minimal time: > http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ > > Just about everyone complains about sysinstall, but it does > work, so there hasn't been much movement there. WD, thanks for this tutorial. If I can suggest something, add a section about CUPS and the printer database (I was missing a link that caused no printer to appear in kprinter...) Joaquin, to come back to sysinstall, it does its job even on a 386 and a raw VGA card. It may sound like Cro-Magnon technology but is still used in the industry... I was surprised too when I first ran it but it does its job. Anyway, a text-based install makes sense: BSD is a console-level system, on top of which runs an X server (at least for desktops). X is not part of the base system. sysinstall could be "dressed up" using curses to simulate a graphics install but what would it buy us? My cent worth ;-) Olivier
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