From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 12:12: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD7DB37B413 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 15285 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2001 19:21:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2001 19:21:08 -0000 Message-ID: <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:08:20 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > Historically, you've always held that the CDROM must boot > to sysinstall. As the software's daddy, I can see why > you'd want that; but your baby is ugly. > > I don't see anyone stepping up to replace it any time > soon, so long as you insist that they not be able to > make money from it, and they can't use the trademark > if the don't include that blecherous software as the > default thing to which CDROMs boot. Yetch. 2 practical questions: What *exactly* do you see wrong with sysinstall and what *exactly* would you do to improve it. I've been looking for various projects to work on, but sysinstall has never looked (to me) like it needed any serious work. Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message