Greetings,

Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the new installer (b70).

Personally, I never had any problems using the old one, but the new one does 
look much better.

Things that I thought were great:
* Relatively few questions asked
* Sane slice size defaults for whole disk option (In my case, 232GiB partition 
was split into four slices, 15GiB for root, 15GiB for second_root, 3.1GiB for 
swap, 198GiB for /export/home for a system with 2GiB of memory)
* Automatic creation of second root for LU
* Overall Look and Feel
* "Felt" snappier than the old installer
* After first boot, I installed the skge driver for my onboard gigabit 
ethernet, and nwam picked up everything via dhcp on the next reboot

Things I suspect are known issues:
* Help is not yet complete (such as going to the help menu in the debug 
terminal)
* Warnings in debug terminal window from the window manager about the terminal 
setting min size of 1 for window, but also setting not resizeable
* System has unqualified hostname warnings on first boot (is this related to 
the installer not having sane initial defaults?)

Suggestions:
* Display the log in a monospaced font when the user clicks the 'show log' 
(don't remember what it is labeled exactly) button at the end of installation

Questions:
* Is there a way to run the detection tool from the installer via a simple 
button? (I may be an idiot and have just overlooked this)

Great work!

Thanks,
-Shawn
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