Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 11:53:19 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: config@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications Message-ID: <Chameleon.854568228.List@journeyman> References: <199701291108.MAA02713@nietzsche.bowtie.nl>
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> I'm not trying to say that there shouldn't be an install program for
> people that want to use FreeBSD in text mode, just that the install
> program in this particular case would not have to be so sophisticated
> (and thus would take a lot of time to maintain and keep up to date).
>
> My assumption here is that people that want to do this will be more
> knowledgeable about Unix and computers than people that expect a GUI
> install program.
>
> If this assumption is true then we can drop the character interface
> program and make the install program run in a 16 color Xserver with
> a nice GUI interface.
<SNIP>
> Comments??
>
> Marc.
Greetings Mark, how about if I suggest something like this (This may have
already been suggested and dismissed or something.)
Using one of the wonderful existing languages (I don't want to start a war on
this one.) you create a text and a graphical shell that would both read from
one main script file to tell it what to do. You could have two main boot
disks, both with the same script (for ease of maintanence) but one would have
the graphic interface and one would have the text interface.
This would require a little more work because you would:
A: Have to create an 'Interperater Shell' to read the script in both text
and graphical mode.
B: You would have to have two seperate boot disks.
-Sean
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