On 07/07/2025 17:26, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
<[email protected]> wrote:
I see that there's work going on the installer. …
… the wiki todo list :-)
https://wiki.freebsd.org/ImproveInstaller
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/freebsd_installers_differences_between_the_shell/>
was partly an attempt to understand the differences between the shell
and the live system. To get a side-by-side view of outputs from env, and
so on.
I reckon, the most surprising thing (from the perspective of a newcomer
to the installer) is, the live system is so constrained that desirable
commands such as pkg can not be used to try software that does not
require a GUI.
From my more experienced perspective: the inability to install lynx is
sometimes a show-stopper. A network connection without Internet service
is quite useless, and – in the environment where I most often need a
live system – I can not gain Internet service without first using a web
browser to authenticate. (Did a developer recently write about walled
garden-like scenarios? I lost track of where I read it, sorry.)
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The shell and live system aside: recent improvements to the installer
are _very_ noticeable. Thanks to everyone involved.
