From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 21:33:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AFD1065674 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:33:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397DC8FC13 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:33:53 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LOU00N00X8G1V00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:33:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LOU00CFTX8F6620@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:33:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:33:50 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20110724162937.33865zm0kn4ztdwk@econet.encontacto.net> To: eculp Message-id: <4E2C8FBE.7040003@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.7.24.212414, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: <20110724162937.33865zm0kn4ztdwk@econet.encontacto.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110704 Thunderbird/5.0 Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:33:53 -0000 On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: > I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not > payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0 > and never really had a problem with understanding the installation > program. There is always a first time, I guess. > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201105/ > > When booting I seem to get a screen that makes me remember installer > screens of the 1980s. (They were not exactly intuitive.) > > I somehow got the idea that the new installer was graphic. Maybe > something like PCBsd that is not bad at all. I use it on all our > employees computers. Actually, after seeing this, I would love to > have the old installer back. Is their an option for that? > > Does this new ASCII installer have a "how to" with a bit of > information on the flow of the installation. > > Thanks, Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really helpful, especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like sysinstall, which you seemed to like. -Nathan