Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:59:24 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
> >
> > The disk partitioning sucks.
>
> This has worked for me without any problems, but you must have met some to say
> that it sucks. Can you elaborate on this, instead of throwing a plain 'sucks'
> and hoping that we agree with you?
Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. It does suck
somewhat less than many Linux linstallers, and a lot less than the OpenBSD
installer, but it still shoves way too many details and options at the
average user. Something akin to PartitionMagic would be an ideal way to go,
given unlimited resources to throw against this particular problem.
The main problem with sysinstall all along has been that it is a one-off
program. There is no glitz in writing installers, and they're only used
once, then rarely if ever again.
OTOH, if you really want to take a stab at a FreeBSD problem that will
make you famous should you succeed, we'd all like to see a lovely, simple
installer that will run on both direct attached VGA and a serial console,
is lovely and well thought out, and intuitive to use. Extra points if you
can run it over X across the network.
If we're going to have a beat-up-Terry night, lets at least make it over
something meaningful, not over something as tired and obvious as the disk
partition editor sucking.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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