From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 13:19:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D3CC37C084 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 6883 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 20:19:11 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 20:19:11 -0000 Message-ID: <396CD2BE.27806D21@integratus.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:19:10 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Dean Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Chuck Robey , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Knobs for optional software... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Dean wrote: > > While I understand the desire to present a nice interface for > interactive installations, please don't leave the server/cluster users > out in the cold. For us, _requiring_ a graphical console and > requiring lots of interaction with the installation program would be a > hugangeous step backwards. Oh, goodness, no. We make extensive use of Jumpstart on Solaris. I would really like to see remote configurable net boot installs for FreeBSD. I don't think anyone would advocate making system administration for server farms more difficult. It would just be nice to make the easy things easy and the hard things possible for both server and workstation users. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message