From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 02:24:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8174106566C; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:24:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891998FC17; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:24:03 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LX100700QO23400@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:24:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.61.211]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LX100KM3QO1M210@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:24:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:24:00 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <201112291504.43430.jhb@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin Message-id: <4EFE7240.1030602@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.61.211 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.12.31.21217, SenderIP=76.210.61.211 References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EFCC59E.8050508@freebsd.org> <201112291504.43430.jhb@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111113 Thunderbird/8.0 Cc: Warren Block , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:24:03 -0000 On 12/29/11 14:04, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:55:10 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: >>>> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, >>>> etc.) >>>> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string >>>> would be >>>> one improvement. >>> There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall >> The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide >> a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would >> be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, >> and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring >> two screens, or a third if you want alternate types. > sysinstall just popped up a new modal dialog with a menu to pick the partition > type. Would something like that work in bsdinstall? > It would. I was hoping to avoid extra dialogs and keystrokes, but it's easy to do. -Nathan