John Walthall wrote:
And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug! For me, at least sysinstall
> has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry.

Same here. I ignored it every time and got no problems at all...


Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't mean though, to
> belittle the efforts of the developers; these days people are going to
expect it to be polished on the order of YaST, which is ridiculous. Sysinstall
> is functional.

Full ACK.


Although irritated, variously, by every one of these issues, I am most concerned
> about the geometry bug, it looks lackadaisical.

The only other concern I have is the I-don't-know-which-field-is-in-focus-bug. But I have to admit that I rarely use sysinstall, so I don't bother that much...


If people have trouble with sysinstall-the-configuration-tool, perhaps they
> might examine sysutils/webmin?

That my be true for post-installation situations, but it doesn't help those people who want to *install* FreeBSD on their machines...


Just my 2 cent


Philipp
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www.familie-ost.info/~pj
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