From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 08:27:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AB81065673 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:27:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobier@tobier.se) Received: from mailout2.surf-town.net (mailout2.surf-town.net [212.97.132.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2918F8FC0C for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mailout2 [127.0.0.1]) by mailout2.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785CA9A for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from squirrel-webmail.surftown.com (unknown [212.97.133.1]) by mailout2.surf-town.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C71096 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:27:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 130.237.226.60 (SquirrelMail authenticated user tobier@tobier.se) by squirrel-webmail.surftown.com with HTTP; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:27:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:27:06 +0200 (CEST) From: "Tobias Eriksson" To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:24:07 +0000 Subject: Sysinstall for just installing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tobier@tobier.se List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:27:13 -0000 I've been thinking a bit about sysinstall. What do we really want to do with it? See, the way I use sysinstall is just to install my system, I never use it after an install, so to me it seems pointless having it on there after I have my system up and going. Of course this is just me, maybe many out there use sysinstall daily. What I'm getting at is that maybe sysinstall should be more tailored to just installing: make it more straightforward to the user. Start with setting up the keyboard and language, then maybe the NIC menu as described in earlier posts, and then move on to partitioning and package installing. Is it just me that thinks like this, or do you have similar thoughts? -- Tobias