Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:56:25 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Peter J. Cherny" <peterc@luddite.com.au> Subject: Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall Message-ID: <B034A253-CFF5-4B37-BEF5-FFFA6F0D882D@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4EFCD252.7080209@cran.org.uk> References: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au> <CAESiWkk-5QVVbjvi8eNoZSam_vd1ruLMBezQBjawQC7iGK3z1w@mail.gmail.com> <4EFCD252.7080209@cran.org.uk>
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On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 29/12/2011 18:39, Renato Botelho wrote: >> IIRC, PCBSD installer can install a regular FreeBSD on ZFS. > > It can do, but you're left with a /very/ basic installation - the hostname, network interfaces etc. aren't configured, which could be a problem for some people. > > If I thought there would be any support for it, I'd try and find time to plug in the sade(4) rewrite into sysinstall - it has a rather nice UI and supports ZFS. The base of the PC-BSD installer is in the system as pc-sysinstall... There were plans to merge bsdinstall with it that never came to fruition. pc-sysinstall handles the hard part of the system install on a huge number of combinations. Just FYI. Warnerhelp
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