Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:42:53 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hsu@cs.hut.fi, jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Message-ID: <2008.806179373@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:09:05 CDT." <m0sYdYQ-000IDWC@venus.mcs.com>
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> I happen to personally HATE the installer that FreeBSD uses, as adding disks > to an existing system is a real bitch of a job the way they do things. The > nice (and it IS nice) installer that you get when you boot disk #1 is not > available once you have it up, and that's really too bad -- if FreeBSD had a > nice, clean disk partitioning and labelling tool I'd be in hog heaven right > now. I'm working on it! I'm working on it! :-) It's an unfortunate fact that the release tools seem to occupy a remote corner in most people's consciousness and I've been doing a lot of that sort of development alone, though Poul-Henning and Gary were white knights during the 2.0.5 installation effort. The main drawback to the current model is, however, the fact that having one person hack out the installer in a corner results in something that has a rather polarised view of how installs should be done, and there's not enough general feed-back during the development process - it all comes in postmortem. If someone out there considers the further development of sysinstall as something they'd be interested in, please contact me. We have some time before 2.1 to work on getting this right, for once, and we shouldn't waste it. Jordan
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