Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: adams@digitalspark.net, dcs@newsguy.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@sasknow.com, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <199912151234.HAA51317@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912142330590.364-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>
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Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Hey, I like CUI. I'd rather install with a CUI than a GUI, all other > > things being equal. And besides some quirks here and there, I really > > like sysinstall. > > Its nice, but its not where it should be. > > > But the fact is that when we get featured in a magazine article, > > user-friendly install == GUI. No GUI, it's not an user-friendly install. > > End of review. You can kick and scream all you want, that's the way it > > is. Either we live by these rules, or we loose. > > A VESA GUI based sysinstall replacement would probably be small enough to > fit on a floppy, yet still have the friendlyness that a new user/reviewer > would look for. > > If we follow jkh's outline, making another "front end target" for the > script shouldn't be that hard. You have X, VESA Syscons, and Text > Syscons. > > The script says "ok, prompt user for <blah>", under X it opens a window, > under Text some ASCII dialog, and under VESA a little window. > This is important to note... 25% of all the installs I do are on MGA (remember monochrome graphics adapter - a hercules card.) So, I would not be in favor of any replacement that required a VESA or VGA platform... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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