From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 06:19:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2EA16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:19:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C193F43D1F for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:19:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from ogautherot (mas91-1-82-238-221-116.fbx.proxad.net [82.238.221.116]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676582B593C; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:19:04 +0100 (CET) From: Olivier Gautherot To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:19:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050309223030.053d3010@209.152.117.178> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050309223030.053d3010@209.152.117.178> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503100719.01392.olivier@gautherot.net> cc: "W. D." cc: Joaquin Menchaca Subject: Re: Any thoughts on Graphical install UI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:19:06 -0000 > >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