Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:05:04 +0300 From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot Message-ID: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
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Hi, > Julian Elischer has placed a gallery of the installation process at > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/ for people who > don't want to reinstall their computer. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/06.png Will BSDInstaller support PPPoE? It could be very useful for network installation over ADSL. Does BSDInstaller support network installation from FTP or NIS or even HTTP? http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/11.png Is it a low-level formatting? Why should one format a new hard disk before partitioning it? Does the pointer there reside at "Skip this step" by default? IMHO in all sentences like "Would you like to format this disk?" or "You may now partition this disk if you desire" the word "this" is better to be always changed to the disk name. On those screenshots it should be "ad0" ot "the ad0". By the way, does/will BSDInstaller support a DD (dangerously dedicated) disk mode? http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png I think this menu should be changed, so one could select not only the slice size but also where it begins. Ideally this should be defined by three numbers: 'start sector', 'end sector' and 'size in sectors'. Changing the 'size in sectors' should also change the 'end sector', and changing 'start sector' or 'end sector' should also change the 'size in sectors', automatically. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/24.png http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/25.png I think the word "formatted" on the second screenshot should be changed to "created", because fdisk doesn't format partitions/slices. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/22.png http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/26.png Does BSDInstaller support installtion on multiple slices or multiple physical disks? Sysinstall supports it. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/33.png Isn't "Ports Collection" a better name than "Ports tree"? Thanks
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