From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 21:44:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6C637B528 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA39071; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007210443.VAA39071@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Grafical Installation In-Reply-To: <3977B5F9.B7E560C1@confusion.net> from Laurence Berland at "Jul 20, 2000 10:31:21 pm" To: Laurence Berland Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dan@mostgraveconcern.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > John Baldwin wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Don't worry, we aren't idiots. :) It's a general framework and scipting > > toolkit that allows you write scripts that use Qt in X and Turbo Vision > > dialogs in the console. However, more backends can be easily added. As > > for sysinstall's replacement itself, we are moving towards having a lot > > of the installation process scriptable so that it can be automated to whatever > > degree you prefer. > > > > -- > > > > John Baldwin > > Are we talking something like a better version of RedHat's Kickstart? > Or something even more scriptable? > > -- > Laurence Berland Having not used Kickstart, I'm not in a position to say. However, you will be able to do most everything that the installation process does in a Tcl script once this is done. -- John Baldwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message