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Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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On 29/12/2011 16:37, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and especially 
> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people who are old 
> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally positive 
> comments on the user experience. Patches would be even more 
> appreciated, since real life has intervened to steal most of my 
> FreeBSD time.

There was talk in the past that any future installer should be based 
around the pc-sysinstall backend - has there been any progress towards 
moving bsdinstall to it?

-- 
Bruce Cran