> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:43:35 +1000 > From: "Petrus" <petr...@tpg.com.au> > Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love > To: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <001001ca85c4$762faa80$0301a...@jim4fb89194d83> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > >I think what we're looking at here is that sysinstall should probably > > be replaced... but it works well enough that it doesn't *have* to be > > The virtue of sysinstall, however, is that it is console based. I for one > would rather endure sysinstall's idiosyncracies, if it still means that I'm > going to be able to reliably install on whatever ancient, eldritch hardware > I happen to have with me at the time. > > If someone wants to write something X based, with hardware detection a la > Ubuntu, and all the proverbial bells and whistles and flashing lights, then > by all means; (and I think they already have, with finstall) but I think > FreeBSD absolutely needs to keep a console-based installer as a fallback > for > old hardware. > > I think PC-BSD does just fine with this portion of it - sysinstall is still there, version 8 can do a pure FreeBSD 8 install *or* a PC-BSD install (with the extra PBI bits and whatnot) and has a nice graphical installer as well as a LiveCD image.
There is absolutely no reason to change the default FreeBSD installer in my opinion, when the PC-BSD one will suffice for the 'snazzy' desktop installs. -- Thanks, Mike Bybee _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"