From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 4:24:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from proxon.bnc.net (proxon.bnc.net [62.225.99.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9449437B407 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noses@proxon.bnc.net) Received: (from noses@localhost) by proxon.bnc.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6BBO9B46455; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:24:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from noses) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:24:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200107111124.f6BBO9B46455@proxon.bnc.net> From: Noses To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Organization: Noses' cave In-Reply-To: <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> User-Agent: tin/1.5.6-20000803 ("Dust") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.3-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) wrote: > Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. I just installed NetBSD on a Sun. Believe me, I'd even willing to pay for sysinstall as it is right now. It was a nightmare. > The main problem with sysinstall all along has been that it is a one-off > program. There is no glitz in writing installers, and they're only used > once, then rarely if ever again. I guess you're wrong; it is actually easier to tell customers to use /stand/sysinstall for package management and configuration of /etc/rc.conf than having them attack delicate parts of the system with clumsy fingers. Noses. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message