On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:00:01PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > >>I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar > > >>to something like FreeBSD with ease to it. > > There is no _need_ for a "nice curses setup" - the current installer > already "has ease to it"w, to put it mildly. In fact, OpenBSD's > installer is the best I have met during my years-long career of > a sysadmin. > > You are given a brand new machine; you bring your install CD; and after > four minutes of using the standard tools (disklabel, fdisk, ifconfig, > ...) you are already very familiar with, you have a fully working box, > modulo afterboot.
The only issue I've seen is that if you are new to OBSD, even if used to the command line in Linux (not clicky-pointy-lindows) fdisk and disklabel are new. On linux, the standard non-GUI partitioner is cfdisk (curses fdisk) while there is not such thing as disklabel). To my mind, even a curses interface to cfdisk and disklabel is not necessary, but a little more help, e.g. a mini-menu along the bottom, would go a long way. Of course, the best thing is to have a copy of Absolute OpenBSD and the FAQ open infront of you when you do the install. Doug.
