Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:23:29 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Lothar Braun <lothar@lobraun.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <486CEEF1.9040702@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <486C8700.5020100@lobraun.de> References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <20080702235800.H47773@fledge.watson.org> <486C8700.5020100@lobraun.de>
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Lothar Braun schrieb: > Robert Watson wrote: >> My primary concern about some of these replacement installer projects >> is that they've placed a strong focus on making them graphical -- I >> actually couldn't care less about GUIs (and I think they actually >> hurt my configurations, since I use serial consoles a lot), but what >> I do want is a very tight and efficient install process, which I feel >> sysinstall does badly on (not just for the reasons you specify). > > Hmm, how should a tight and efficient installation process look like > in your opinion? And what are the other points that are bad in > systinstall? > Mass-installation via PXE-booting is a mess (how can you have to pack the install.cfg file into the mfsroot diskimage???). Take a look at kickstart+cobbler from RedHat for a system with some thought behind this process. I don't care the least about GUI or not GUI. I'd like to to able to deploy them as seamlessly as the CentOS/RHEL boxes. Rainer
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