On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:03:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:38:55AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:00:37 -0500 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like > > > to help... What about graphical? > > > > If you're looking to improve FreeBSD's user-friendliness, more usefual than a > > GUI installer would be a few network setup tools. To get some idea what I'm > > talking about, take a look at Slackware's "netconfig" and "adsl-setup" tools. > > These aren't GUI, just ncurses scripts, but very easy to use. When I was a FBSD > > newbie, one of my most frustrating experiences was having to manually write and > > modify /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. I think a lot of newbies get to > > this point, spend a few frustrating days tearing their hair out, and then give > > up and go back to Redhat or SUSE. > > > I think we (theBSD's) are losing a lot of serious brain > brainpower (and certainly lots of latent high-end talent) > by not having a less-headbanging install. I've done it > literally dozens of times; I still get flummoxed now and > then. > > What I would do for GUI/curses build/install would have > a liberal (much space/slice) as the Default. Then have > a lynx or links reader point the new users to a few choice > pages if case they want to fine-tune. > > How much hacking would it take to have our current > /stand/sysinstall have a web front end?
A lot, probably. If you people really want a new installer for FreeBSD this badly, put your money where your mouth is and set up a fund to pay one or more developers to work full-time on creating one. Kris
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