From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 20:05:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D7F16A420 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from tignes.restart.be (unknown [IPv6:2001:41d0:1:2ad2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB1B13C4D3 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from restart.be (avoriaz.tunnel.bel [IPv6:2001:41d0:1:2ad2::fffe:0]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "avoriaz.restart.be", Issuer "CA master" (verified OK)) by tignes.restart.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E241BAC2E; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:05:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from morzine.restart.bel (morzine6.restart.bel [IPv6:2001:41d0:1:2ad2::1:2]) (authenticated bits=0) by restart.be (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m16K5685087074; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:05:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=restart.be; s=avoriaz; t=1202328309; bh=+UhvIjkjMYrKjMZInV26r5EbeywQ4+4pt3LPqjo YX48=; h=DomainKey-Signature:Message-ID:Date:From:Organization: User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Scanned-By; b=uxVpWr2kPjj lYuKoh7be3cbDx2Y15FAz3Cjqt2Ozdbltp+o0MNKt4m8Nert4rwUQN0yGucAa/jQO5v CWaf5yRQ== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=avoriaz; d=restart.be; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:x-scanned-by; b=weukyq/bZzeddWgg2DYvmT7GKXrAUyml39SnQYaWjIsJRrZCCE2wISWIFfdbTlQ05 JWaCIPp0UjfrSZDCxQzjQ== Message-ID: <47AA12F2.1000905@restart.be> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:05:06 +0100 From: Henri Hennebert Organization: RestartSoft User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Stacey References: <200802061709.m16H9Hnc008537@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <200802061709.m16H9Hnc008537@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on IPv6:2001:41d0:1:2ad2::1:1 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finstall alpha3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:05:11 -0000 Julian Stacey wrote: > Henri Hennebert wrote 2 emails with same common text > To: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:38 +0100 > Message-ID: <47A9C236.8040805@restart.be> > The first private shouting got answered. Then came > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:25:57 +0100 > Message-id: <47A9C375.8020805@restart.be> > Assume Henri is too young to remember first graphical installer. Thank you! I'm 60 this year :-) and using FreeBSD since 2.1. Xenix since 88 IIRC. My point is that a graphical installer may be usefull, that's all. > > Though a new graphical installer may be very nice as an option, > let it not ever be the only way: Remember blind installers, > non VESA supported consoles, non X recognised chips, serial line > controlled installs, & non intel/AMD platforms with broken > graphics terminal support. (Sparc maybe ? more later ?) >