+1 to a better installer, graphical or not.
I can practically install FreeBSD blindfolded on the current one, but only
because I've done it so many times. The first few attempts were extremely
frustrating; the menu flow in the current installer makes little sense --
especially if something goes
Exactly. That's what I meant when I said the installer is good but needs
a little polishing.
--Peer
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 23:55 -0800 schrieb Shane Calimlim:
+1 to a better installer, graphical or not.
I can practically install FreeBSD blindfolded on the current one, but only
Matthew Seaman wrote:
... an installer as
a
CLI program that reads in a fairly simple fixed script or language to do
the
installation work, and have separate Curses and/or X based programs to al
low
users to create the installation script interactively.
I admit being seduced at times
2009/12/24 Diane Bruce d...@db.net:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:24:10PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 15 Dec 2009 at 07:33:49 PST Jan Husar wrote:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1123tag=nl.e011
Others have pointed out that PC-BSD meets the need expressed in this
Randi Harper wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Peer Schaefer peer.schae...@hamburg.de wrote:
BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic
backend, and (b) different frontend plugins, e.g. a curses-frontend or
a
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Randi Harper wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Peer Schaefer peer.schae...@hamburg.de wrote:
BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic
Incidentally, I've contacted the author of this article and offered to
correct/discuss some of his assumptions. Waiting to see if he decides
to email me back. :P
-- randi
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Jan Husar jan.hu...@skosi.org wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:58:46 -0800
Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Peer Schaefer peer.schae...@hamburg.de wrote:
BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic
backend, and (b)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Tony Theodore to...@logyst.com wrote:
Perhaps the way to go is a common table of target defaults eg
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.cfg
Which could then be edited by all of
Front end CLI (*)
Front end curses GUI (*)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Peer Schaefer peer.schae...@hamburg.dewrote:
On wednesday, the 23.12.2009, 08:38 + Matthew Seaman wrote:
At the risk of being challenged to produce code (Which, alas, I don't
have
sufficient skill to do. Or sufficient time.) I'd design an installer as
Yeah... I know what vi *is*. I don't see how it's relevant as an
installation option. And by the way, you do edit the install.cfg file
by hand. We don't have a handy tool to automagically create one of
these as far as I know. You know what options are possible by looking
at the sysinstall man
Hello all:
I'm recently new to FreeBSD (former Linux user) and I would like to
share my thoughts in the matter.
(1)
I love *BSD, especially FreeBSD because of the way it is. I read the
handbook before installing it and my
first impressions with the installation process was fine. My biggest
Update:
I confirmed that the scheduled publication date for my article will be
Tuesday the 29th.
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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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Shane Calimlim wrote:
+1 to a better installer, graphical or not.
I'd settle for one that while installing packages you've selected,
doesn't sit there saying to switch discs in what seems to be a very
random order... I still think that would help a lot Why DOES the
installer do that
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