Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:38:55 +0000 From: slave-mike <slave-mike@slavepix.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: timh@tjhawkins.com Subject: Re: New work on installer? Message-ID: <40A8B25F.8020409@slavepix.com> In-Reply-To: <20040517131956.GB91803@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <006801c43bd4$49362fd0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> <20040517131956.GB91803@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
If one were to *not* use the installer to setup a FreeBSD system, (aka, like *old* dos, each step done manually), what are the manual steps involved? Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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 >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40A8B25F.8020409>