From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 13:21:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25398 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA25366 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA07558 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:20:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA04107; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:09:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970416220955.BA54744@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:09:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor 2.2.1 install nit. References: <1.5.4.32.19970416123607.006e0f38@cybercom.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970416123607.006e0f38@cybercom.net>; from The Classiest Man Alive on Apr 16, 1997 08:36:07 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > Not to fan the flames, but has anyone ever considered converting > Slackware's installation program to FreeBSD. Slackware is also a Walnut Creek baby... i think Jordan has been in contact with the author of Slackware for very long. But then again, Jordan has been threatening to rewrite sysinstall for *dig dig* /* * The new sysinstall program. * * This is probably the last attempt in the `sysinstall' line, the next * generation being slated to essentially a complete rewrite. * * $Id: sysinstall.h,v 1.1 1995/04/27 12:50:34 jkh Exp $ ...almost exactly two years now. :-)) I simply don't trust him that it will ever happen. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)