Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:26 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>, questions@freebsd.org, VirtualHost <jeroen@virtualhost.nl>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? Message-ID: <20090423090026.384ebd20.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49F00004.50509@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <BLU0-SMTP493F2C64E33D39A37EF75DD8740@phx.gbl> <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <49EF82B2.2040807@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904222316130.3543@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49EF98C6.2060902@virtualhost.nl> <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr> <49F00004.50509@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:43:32 +0100, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > So long as it maintains two other really useful features of the existing > sysinstall: [...] > * You answer all of the questions first, and only then does the installer > commit any irreversible changes -- and particularly not any operations > that take appreciable lengths of time like creating filesystems or > downloading voluminous install sets. Exactly, that would be my point, too: FIRST do the interaction, do ALL the interaction and do it "in one chunk". THEN start installing everything that's needed by the choices done. This would include additional packages required by certain services. As an addition, I could imagine a combination of the linear and the hierarchical settings access method. I may draw a silly picture: FreeBSD installer NTP settings 10/28 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable NTP? [x] Yes [ ] No NTP server: [ntpthing.bla.dings.org ] <Select> Some setting: [oh don't know ] Other setting: [ ] Choice A [x] Choice B [ ] Choice C <Prev> <next> ------------------------------------------------------------------ F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F10 Help | Menu | Prev: Network (9/28) | Next: Kernel (11/28) | Cancel And yes, I know emplying the function keys can be a problem, but I like them. :-) But I think you get the idea. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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