From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 06:20:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D380C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 06:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8B743D58 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 06:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i4HDJuY5092199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 May 2004 14:19:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i4HDJu4c092198; Mon, 17 May 2004 14:19:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:19:56 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: timh@tjhawkins.com Message-ID: <20040517131956.GB91803@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , timh@tjhawkins.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <006801c43bd4$49362fd0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006801c43bd4$49362fd0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040504, clamav-milter version 0.70u X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New work on installer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:20:01 -0000 --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:00:37AM -0500, timh@tjhawkins.com wrote: > Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would = like to help... What about graphical? There's been plenty of planning and various projects to "produce something better", but to the best of my knowledge all such efforts have basically ground to a halt. Probably the one that got closest to actually getting into production was the libh project -- http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html but that seems to have imploded under a too ambitious development plan, and apparently nothing new has been produced by it since 2002. Note that the system installer tends to be quite a sore point around the various FreeBSD lists, with all sorts of claims about the current sysinstall(8) ranging from loud praises to downright hostility, often by people who haven't got the foggiest idea of how to improve things. It's also a topic that regularly gets bikeshedded to death. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAqLv8iD657aJF7eIRAo+IAJ0aNu3Om0v474FeX6Vtsj+rZ0nffwCeIDGN 5OxOEF87QeVLPW0Np00ZdFY= =1+RI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--