From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Oct 17 7:15: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2247C37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05CC43EA9 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:15:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9HENdbd051308; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:23:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9HENbgw051307; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:23:36 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder To: "Al. Andreou" Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall and/or other installers Message-ID: <20021017102336.R25928@locore.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ee4299@ee.teiath.gr on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:47:04PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:47:04PM +0300, Al. Andreou said words to the effect of; > I'm risking to q an fa here, but anyway... > > Why isn't sysinstall available in the SPARC port? I personally enjoyed > the by-hand method of installation, and would certainly enjoy an I'm glad someone else does :) It just doesn't work right yet, and it has architectural issues that make the code hard to work on. We'll have it working by 5.0-RELEASE. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message