From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 25 15:44:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6766F24 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 15:44:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E00D79F for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 15:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD276E6A2E for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:44:01 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=E/8oBOcVir68oOt9L44UL5pf7 4M=; b=npidSlScdtI/jeoJqb/r4O2E28sPCYyXzd1GIfaxWWj9HDuY1M6Aq8wpb w/8LZDzCIBYVkavlKgRFH2LexrwniBY4o2Z8GBeGfdpSGpjTJgKoYaWBas2uJPNz O2GL73pdeTeRZaONiYAAiRRpe1/Dn7Gj54y0UmJh15tAzRCvwk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=dckOrD4ljJP2bfTS0f6 gEKkaRNmNIpB6QpjAO0FJTiOXJzeJu2jWU+0dzcVb26nx0Y2XAWESEzSqvmxz7fj dsl8/k435pK+ffN6TGePKMSXhHfpT4JPRP7+02IGkyjRjcIdxpSudkCHVGkBhCSn elP6Pq8cqaWiNQ9ZEcUPx+Ic= Received: from [192.168.2.61] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E070E6A2D for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:44:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 16:43:59 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installers and future direction Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 15:44:03 -0000 I heard there was some discussion at BSDCan about the direction of a future FreeBSD installer. Considering we currently have bsdinstall, pc-sysinstall, and an effort to revive sysinstall, I'd be interested to know what was decided (if anything) and whether I could help make progress towards getting a single really good installer/frontend - instead of the current situation with several, none of which have a much-needed UI for setting up an installation on ZFS. -- Bruce Cran