From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 14:30:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A8016A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A59543D2D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:30:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1B0pkY-0004mI-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:30:58 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16462.17826.122810.761570@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:30:58 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <404E36C8.70206@interchange.ca> References: <63602D78-712C-11D8-BA13-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <4261.203.177.105.170.1078798070.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> <20040309032844.GA4690@moo.holy.cow> <404E36C8.70206@interchange.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:30:59 -0000 Corey Mosher writes: > What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install > in addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the > install you can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD > or look at the pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1 > is choose the current way, option 2 is go the GUI method. This > gives people the flexible "old fashioned" way to install while at > the same time getting people through the install who may be less > experienced buy using the GUI version. There's an additional variable here, that I haven't seen anybody mention. It is desirable to have a uniform installation process, no matter what the media. This means the hard-working folks in Release Engineering only have to wrangle one set of code. It is also desirable to have a small installation process, so deisrable I think this is a matter of official policy. (Can anyone confirm or deny this?) As of ... somewhere late in 3.x or early in 4.x, I think ... one could run the entire essential install off one 3.5 floppy. Then it was two. Now it's three, if you need some not-so-uncommon drivers. Will the sky fall if we go to four? No. But "cost" of each additional disk goes up. I don't assume everyone has a 52x CDROM, any more than I assume thay have a 3mbps cable connection. (I'm neither for or against a GUI installer. I just want to be sure we're all playing with the same deck.) Robert Huff