From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 02:37:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF186106564A; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:37:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9786F8FC16; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk32 with SMTP id 32so3136445pzk.13 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:37:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=/BOAgEeuY403Gd7dlqfceI097PnTXrbxvF9JXhFI+nU=; b=ZFBb0qsZfYwhdi5ujdFvbRLGxzlRq5bn+V006xUPkej9BtREALAj3Dozb3wkSd9EAv 92mBQdzxh6joYRzj39V1eleor+AzOKv7b/ZO3ci7O7yKu2G/7tGalfh6F14yw3hstvXs K/vH0o8eIv6MQ2dcMVJ7/fXOquiv2ig8f2ptQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=S/GuKumBKf7Kja3q+Ofq5U61mpWshQNsGqMwlt3jAcnppz8BY/tAxeFBRoqH19cbTc gxnmFkhfSx+NYh8MZANPQuxYVCuWCxw2bOQWQh2Ogwg5SX7ldMk+ZbvNiI36sBluHwvG MlMYBFB05L0PCr1VUZJ2RxTKV8EDpqAtrUt3w= Received: by 10.142.207.8 with SMTP id e8mr7745517wfg.405.1294022268321; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.20.5] (c-24-130-151-210.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.130.151.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w42sm28571995wfh.3.2011.01.02.18.37.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:37:47 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:37:43 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <78121808-0455-43F6-9E9A-7DC48A7970FF@gmail.com> References: <64113.15076.qm@web113504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> To: Garrett Cooper X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: giffunip@tutopia.com, Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:37:48 -0000 On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >=20 >> FWIW; >>=20 >> There was yet another attempt some time ago: >>=20 >> http://www.bsdinstaller.org/ >>=20 >> And in some old news they were claiming: >>=20 >> May 7, 2009 >>=20 >> Work has started to add missing features of sysinstall to = BSDInstaller. The hope is that it will be feature complete in time for = FreeBSD 9.0 release. >=20 > It's lua based. Looks great according to the screenshots (and = probably in better shape than the proposed prototype by folks with = pc-sysinstall with the web interface), but it ain't gonna happen unless = core/other folks central to the project agree to adding another = interpreted language in to base. I doubt that it would be a drop in = place working prototype though given that geom is a lot different = between DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD. > Feel free to prove me wrong :). Adding to my previous message, the screenshots show some serious = pain in the neck functionality that has bogged down sysinstall for years = like installing packages, password setup, and other typical post-install = configuration stuff that should be driven from handbook directions. Thanks, -Garrett