From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 24 6:16: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7CC37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E517143F18 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BED4E9D8; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9EE9D4; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:15:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:15:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: David Syphers Cc: Erik Trulsson , Frank Tegtmeyer , Subject: Re: sysinstall options In-Reply-To: <200301221349.26134.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Message-ID: <20030124061329.P39012-100000@moo.sysabend.org> Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Syphers wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:04 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > There is no replacement for sysinstall. There has been talk about > > writing a replacement for sysinstall for as long as I can remember. > > (When I got started with FreeBSD the latest release was 3.1) > > So far this much desired and much talked about replacement has yet to > > materialize. > > They've been talking about a replacement since JKH wrote sysinstall, since it > was never meant to be a permenant solution. > > However, a replacement won't just "materialize." People need to write it. Some > people are - http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html. Sysinstall was intorduced in the 2.0 tree (if not from the beginning, very close, I remember using it to do 2.0a SNAP installs). Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message