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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:35:48 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:49:35 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:

> As those of you who obsessively follow the SVN commit mails may have 
> noticed, I recently began work on a new installer, which I have 
> tentatively named 'bsdinstall'. You can find the code itself at 
> svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall and a wiki page 
> describing it at http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall.

You may want to reconsider having single large distfiles: people still
want to do ftp installs over dialup and having chunks of around 10MB or
so would allow downloads to be re-tried if the connection fails. 
Some people think modern FreeBSD releases shouldn't be installed on
anything other than modern hardware and technologies (i.e. broadband),
but I disagree.

-- 
Bruce Cran