From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 9 17:06:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04345 for alpha-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04031 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:00:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA13954; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:59:49 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:59:49 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au, jim.king@mail.sstar.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-Reply-To: <11733.884391618@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hmmmm. I'd be interested to see the approach you guys have taken. As > someone who's long been reviewing just what it would take to rip > sysinstall screaming out of FreeBSD and replace it with something > far better, I'm curious to see what your own design goals and > methodologies are! Well, a look in src/distrib/util/sysinst should give you an idea. :-) I wouldn't necessarially say that what's there now exactly demonstrates where we want to be, though. There are at least a few developers who want to rototill the whole thing. I've not looked too closely at it myself yet, either. But it is a definite improvement over our last install system, at any rate. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite mist, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.