From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 22:04:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B26E16A412 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736A413C441 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 74363 invoked by uid 0); 10 Jan 2007 21:37:31 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.13?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 10 Jan 2007 21:37:31 +0000 Message-ID: <45A55C93.3020402@thingy.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:37:23 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <73387c420701071410p710a3436gdecda61d57643950@mail.gmail.com> <45A55416.4060203@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <45A55416.4060203@netfence.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:04:15 -0000 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via > PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( > Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed > this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've just had the nice experience of taking delivery of a dozen Dell servers and had them all up and running with my own customisations and package selection in one afternoon with one keypress. They are installed as quick as I can press F12. > 2. it's way past what's currently considered "user friendly" > > Please don't get any graphics bloatware in the way. :-) Amen. Really, if you are put off by the installer, then once that has completed., the rest of the "management tools" (i.e. vi) are not going give you the warm fuzzies either. If you need the graphical management, and nice installer, isn't that what PCBSD is for? Having a graphical installer would be like having a super luxury limo with bar and pool, but which stops in the desert and leaves you by a phone box. Howie