Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:49:35 -0600 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Frank Tegtmeyer <fte-sub-freebsd-stable@fte.to> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall options Message-ID: <200301221349.26134.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030122100404.GA76851@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20030122151514.Q54551-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <m33cnlzggz.fsf@teg.local> <20030122100404.GA76851@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:04 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:36AM +0100, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > One additional question: I saw somewhere mentioned that sysinstall is a > > deprecated tool - what would be the replacement? > > There is no replacement for sysinstall. There has been talk about > writing a replacement for sysinstall for as long as I can remember. > (When I got started with FreeBSD the latest release was 3.1) > So far this much desired and much talked about replacement has yet to > materialize. They've been talking about a replacement since JKH wrote sysinstall, since it was never meant to be a permenant solution. However, a replacement won't just "materialize." People need to write it. Some people are - http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html. -David -- "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." -P. J. O'Rourke Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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