From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 14:42:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC63106564A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06588FC16 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:42:23 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LXB00D08Y6ND600@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:42:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.61.211]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LXB00A1AY5TVO10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:53 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <4F05B6B1.8090501@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.61.211 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.1.5.143015, SenderIP=76.210.61.211 References: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au> <4EFCD252.7080209@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111113 Thunderbird/8.0 Subject: Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:42:24 -0000 On 01/04/12 14:56, Warner Losh wrote: > On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > >> On 29/12/2011 18:39, Renato Botelho wrote: >>> IIRC, PCBSD installer can install a regular FreeBSD on ZFS. >> It can do, but you're left with a /very/ basic installation - the hostname, network interfaces etc. aren't configured, which could be a problem for some people. >> >> If I thought there would be any support for it, I'd try and find time to plug in the sade(4) rewrite into sysinstall - it has a rather nice UI and supports ZFS. > The base of the PC-BSD installer is in the system as pc-sysinstall... There were plans to merge bsdinstall with it that never came to fruition. pc-sysinstall handles the hard part of the system install on a huge number of combinations. > > Just FYI. For those interested in this, there is a brief list of the kinds of things that need to be done and hurdles along the way on the wiki at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/PCBSDInstallMerge -Nathan