Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:44:37 +0900 (JST) From: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) Message-ID: <199801280344.MAA07057@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:06:16 -0800". <29029.885956776@time.cdrom.com>
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In article <29029.885956776@time.cdrom.com> jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: >> I think it could be >> returned to this with a little work and the end-result would be much >> easier disk configuration. I agree. >> The Novice installation shouldn't even >> bring up that screen by default, its choices being more along the >> lines of: >> >> Would you like to: >> 1) Use the entire disk for FreeBSD. >> 2) Use only unallocated space for FreeBSD. >> 3) Edit the partition table manually. I want to add 4) Use the second disk for FreeBSD if unallocated space on the second disk exists and no empty partition is found on the first disk. >> with choices 1 and 2 automagically handling all the other >> configuration details as necessary based on how much space the user >> has available, etc. If we drop the user into the partition editing >> screen at all it should be because they either explicitly asked us to >> or because we really couldn't avoid it. Most beginning users neither >> know nor care about such details, they just know roughly how much disk >> they want to devote to FreeBSD. I also want to resurrect "[size XX MB]" in the distribution selection menu of 2.1.x sysinstall because it can be automatically calculated. This will be very easy. BTW, I'll start update multilingual extention because 2.2.6 will be out soon, but I want to know which branch (3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-RELENG) is appropreate for this work. I cvsupped the latest source today and diffed the both. They are very diffent. If they will be merged soon, I'll choose 3.0-CURRENT as the working base, but if they won't merged at least until the release of 2.2.6, I have to start with 2.2-RELENG because avarage users needs 2.2.6. Hmm.... -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi Network Technology Center Keio University hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp
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