Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 06:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bora@wireless.stanford.edu, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install (was: Re: syscons driver) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102063235.1093F-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> In-Reply-To: <199601020812.SAA04044@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > At the end of asking all the questions that it asks, the installer > should be able to dump its entire internal state in a more-or-less > human-readable form. It should also be able to reingest this form and > proceed from there; this would allow for 'template installations', which > would cover a lot of, say, 'Joe on the net's issues. 8) sounds like the configure script from perl-4.036. asks a bunch of questions, searches out information, does some tiny compilies. then lets the user edit a file containing all the data. finally the build process begins Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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