From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 13:12:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4066F16A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 13:12:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E673643D77 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 13:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=43721 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTJfp-0001FZ-M3 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 15:12:21 +0200 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.15.61]:1503 helo=[192.168.1.101]) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTJfo-0000P5-Gz for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 15:12:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4278CA36.6080600@offmyserver.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:12:22 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 13:12:34 -0000 Travis Poppe wrote: > Hello all, > > For quite some time I've been looking forward to seeing sysinstall go > and be replaced with a new system that's user interface agnostic. This > would allow developers to create a user interface of their choice > without having to muck around with the internals of the installer. It > seems that one of the major reasons this hasn't happened yet is simply > due to lack of development. > > Correct me of I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what BSD > Installer (the DragonFly team's installer) currently does. Other than > "political" disagreements, are there really any good reasons for us > not to look into using BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? > I believe either FreeSBIE or LiveBSD (FreeBSD LiveCD distributions) > has already included the BSD Installer in a recent release. Scott Ullrich indeed ported it to FreeSBIE. > I know Scott Long has posed this idea to the list in the past. BSD > Installer would provide the framework needed to make bells and > whistles such as graphical installers and so forth much more likely in > the future. If there are some out there who dislike the interface > provided by BSD Installer, I don't think it would be too difficult to > write a sysinstall lookalike UI for their system. > > Please visit http://www.bsdinstaller.org if any of you are interested. > > Thanks, > > -Travis Poppe This is something on my TODO list and is something I've been working on somewhat recently. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of May / beginning of June. --Devon