From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 20:39:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9825C106564A; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:39:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E99F8FC14; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E1F58139; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:39:41 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id sHD7Pli+e-b0; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:39:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (unknown [76.210.75.5]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497235811D; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:39:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4D20E28C.4090907@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:39:40 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101227 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Cran References: <4D20C8BF.701@freebsd.org> <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:39:42 -0000 On 01/02/11 14:35, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:49:35 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn 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