From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 00:32:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0430216A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 00:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997B243D67 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 00:32:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tlpbsd@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so16435wra for ; Tue, 03 May 2005 17:32:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ZmpJTm8s+AYYYha9OxaR5cQzfN67SNLbSCHJfEKuLFAA7K0mbCx43Q1tVnYZg7JfQ8OiaQ3X5P1UzrTBno1mp64/f9ZOij7eVDNr/Cxj6lIteqEf2i9evXUGFLPabuOPcUPyhMRKb9TQp03/W3BJ1qwBVAsHO8/a56exkX/Delk= Received: by 10.54.15.13 with SMTP id 13mr12492wro; Tue, 03 May 2005 17:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.37.79 with HTTP; Tue, 3 May 2005 17:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9533da6c050503173261897e65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:32:42 -0600 From: Travis Poppe To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, tlp@liquidx.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Travis Poppe List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 00:32:46 -0000 Hello all, For quite some time I've been looking forward to seeing sysinstall go and be replaced with a new system that's user interface agnostic. This would allow developers to create a user interface of their choice without having to muck around with the internals of the installer. It seems that one of the major reasons this hasn't happened yet is simply due to lack of development. Correct me of I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what BSD Installer (the DragonFly team's installer) currently does. Other than "political" disagreements, are there really any good reasons for us not to look into using BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? I believe either FreeSBIE or LiveBSD (FreeBSD LiveCD distributions) has already included the BSD Installer in a recent release. I know Scott Long has posed this idea to the list in the past. BSD Installer would provide the framework needed to make bells and whistles such as graphical installers and so forth much more likely in the future. If there are some out there who dislike the interface provided by BSD Installer, I don't think it would be too difficult to write a sysinstall lookalike UI for their system. Please visit http://www.bsdinstaller.org if any of you are interested. Thanks, -Travis Poppe