From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 00:49:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137FD1065673; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from mail.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [70.36.220.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7FE8FC17; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sa-nc-cs-216.static.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.xcllnt.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q040R9mJ079360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:27:04 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Eitan Adler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) Cc: freebsd-current Current , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:49:40 -0000 On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi, >=20 > In the the recent sysinstall thread there seems to be general = agreement that > having a post-install configuration tool is a good thing. Until such a > tool is written I think it would be a good idea to use sysinstall for > this purpose. I am willing to do the work to restore sysinstall and > maintain it as a post-install tool until a new one is written. I though sade was created for that purpose, because sysinstall was too much tied to the installation process. If sysinstall comes back, sade definitely has to go: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r161060 | netchild | 2006-08-07 16:35:49 -0700 (Mon, 07 Aug 2006) | 9 = lines Say welcome to 'sade', the SysAdmins Disk Editor. It's the fdisk and = disklabel part of sysinstall. So sysinstall may retire now, we have the important = non-install part of it covered. ATM it doesn't understand GEOM stuff (like mirror, stripe, raid, ...), = but patches to change this and to clean it up internally are more than welcome. Submitted by: mami@nyitolap.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In general I think it's a bad idea to revive sysinstall. It doesn't function appropriately on most architectures that FreeBSD supports and it's definitely the opposite of what we've been working towards for at least the last 5 years. FYI, --=20 Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net