Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:37:43 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: giffunip@tutopia.com, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid Message-ID: <78121808-0455-43F6-9E9A-7DC48A7970FF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B2ED8738-F7AC-46D1-8CA9-873BF4D0FE12@gmail.com> References: <64113.15076.qm@web113504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <B2ED8738-F7AC-46D1-8CA9-873BF4D0FE12@gmail.com>
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On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >=20 >> FWIW; >>=20 >> There was yet another attempt some time ago: >>=20 >> http://www.bsdinstaller.org/ >>=20 >> And in some old news they were claiming: >>=20 >> May 7, 2009 >>=20 >> Work has started to add missing features of sysinstall to = BSDInstaller. The hope is that it will be feature complete in time for = FreeBSD 9.0 release. >=20 > It's lua based. Looks great according to the screenshots (and = probably in better shape than the proposed prototype by folks with = pc-sysinstall with the web interface), but it ain't gonna happen unless = core/other folks central to the project agree to adding another = interpreted language in to base. I doubt that it would be a drop in = place working prototype though given that geom is a lot different = between DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD. > Feel free to prove me wrong :). Adding to my previous message, the screenshots show some serious = pain in the neck functionality that has bogged down sysinstall for years = like installing packages, password setup, and other typical post-install = configuration stuff that should be driven from handbook directions. Thanks, -Garrett
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