Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:39:40 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid Message-ID: <4D20E28C.4090907@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown> References: <4D20C8BF.701@freebsd.org> <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown>
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On 01/02/11 14:35, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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. > That's a good point. I was planning on using libfetch's restart feature for this case. Do you think that would be unreliable? -Nathan
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