Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:01 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Alex Samorukov <ml@os2.kiev.ua>, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New BSD Installer Message-ID: <20120214172801.GA93151@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <20120213195554.O46120@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <4F355A5B.9080007@rewt.org.uk> <4F35743B.4020302@os2.kiev.ua> <4F37DBA3.7030304@cran.org.uk> <20120213195554.O46120@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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--DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:15:17AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:32:51 +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On 2/10/2012 7:47 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote: > > > I am highly against reverting. Old installer is not GPT aware and in= fact > > > is unmaintained for a very long time. > >=20 > > That's not really correct: quite a lot of work was done on it last yea= r. >=20 > Indeed. Was it you working on the updated sade(8) adding GPT and ZFS? >=20 > <rant> >=20 > I don't see it in terms of reverting. Much other useful functionality=20 > of sysinstall has yet to be reimplemented.=20 What exactly are you missing? There's sysutils/host-setup to configure your system like sysinstall did. There's sade and I am working on a tool to browse and add packages from the installation media and / or the ftp mirrors. --DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk86maEACgkQKc512sD3afiQtACeOstCNR5OXkxcT5HSwvY4kKj/ it0An2WIGvc1TVimGJpEU7VhZ6uOuAyi =9bEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg--
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