From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 06:41:08 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 9D719106566B; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2165E8FC08; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl (nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl [130.89.160.140]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id p0F6U1TN005288; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:30:01 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: Nathan Whitehorn Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:30:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201101150730.01010.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact icts.servicedesk@utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD 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: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:41:08 -0000 On Friday 14 January 2011 19:26:43 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Demo ISO for i386: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110114.iso.bz2 Very cool stuff. I've tried it in VirtualBox and it worked well. I've identified the following issues: 1) The Partition Editor asks if you want to create a boot partition (if you create a partition with mountpoint /) even if one already exists. 2) The Partition Editor's confirmation dialog has two options "Don't Save" and "Cancel"; it is unclear what the difference between the two is. AFAICT "Don't Save" really means "Cancel installation", and "Cancel" really means "Re-edit" (I'm sure there's a better word for that). 3) These steps result in an error dialog: "Invalid argument size '0'" 1) Do a complete guided install on a 4GB disk 2) Restart installer and choose guided install 3) Select "partition" instead of "entire disk". 4) The Complete dialog doesn't say that it will reboot after pressing OK and gives you no oppertunity to remove the media, so the user will boot straight back into the installer (depends on bios settings). 5) Pressing cancel in the NIC setup dialog doesn't cancel the installation but continues it without configuring a NIC. Perhaps this could be clarified in the dialog text. Also, will the complete installer contain & install a copy of /usr/src? -- Pieter de Goeje