From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 03:35:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA14068 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA14063 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA01186; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 06:34:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 06:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Michael Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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) In-Reply-To: <199601020812.SAA04044@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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