Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:44:03 +0200 From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Notes on improving the installer Message-ID: <CAFYkXjnrEQDCg-jCBOuo3Q1b1u0=BKswHEghg1ZeWH5rL7g_nw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86zfe6qko2.fsf@asn.ftfl.ca> References: <8634byieib.fsf@asn.ftfl.ca> <CAFYkXjmAUZh_SRmBeP7%2BXuZqdTc=k7DMmAZ8m8sC_TEewUGkmw@mail.gmail.com> <86zfe6qko2.fsf@asn.ftfl.ca>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 19:17, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Yesterday at the Kitchener-Waterloo hackathon, we spent a few hours > >> reviewing the FreeBSD installer and identifying areas for improvement. > >> We've documented our observations and suggestions on the wiki: > >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ImproveInstaller > >> Feedback and contributions are welcome. > >> Joe > > > Hey Joe! Its totally unfriendly to (side)install FreeBSD on a drive > > with existing operating systems everything needs to be done by hand in > > that case while this is probably most common scenario for new users > > :-) > > > I reported this on bugzilla as feature request some time ago.. should > > I add note on wiki too? :-) > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241296 > > > Thanks :-) > > Tomek > > Hi Tomek, > > Yes, if you're up for adding your and David's thoughts to the wiki page > that would be helpful. > > There is a GSoC project that /could/ solve some of these problems if > that work could be integrated into the installer. > > Joe Notes added thanks :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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