Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-18 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:27:06 -0800 (PST) Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether > > sysinstall should be replaced or not. > > The purpose of sysinstall is to initially install FreeBSD and

Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-18 Thread Nicole
--- Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether sysinstall > should be replaced or not. > The purpose of sysinstall is to initially install FreeBSD and it > serves > this purpose quite well. However sysinstall is also the first thing a

Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-18 Thread Nicole
--- Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether sysinstall > should be replaced or not. > The purpose of sysinstall is to initially install FreeBSD and it > serves > this purpose quite well. However sysinstall is also the first thing a

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2 -- sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
james r relyea wrote: i would appreciate a new freebsd loading scheme more than a replacement loader. the main annoyance to me is the requirement that freebsd be loaded in a primary partition. i am not familiar with the structure of the freebsd partition or what necessitates use of a primary pa

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2 -- sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-17 Thread james r relyea
i would appreciate a new freebsd loading scheme more than a replacement loader. the main annoyance to me is the requirement that freebsd be loaded in a primary partition. i am not familiar with the structure of the freebsd partition or what necessitates use of a primary partition. what i would li

Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-17 Thread Julian Stacey
> Would it be worth considering to provide the BSD Installer [1] as an > alternate choice to sysinstall for a default FreeBSD installation? > I'm sure several people already thought of it and it might be > interesting to hear their conclusions. That would be a decision for release engineers on [

sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-16 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether sysinstall should be replaced or not. The purpose of sysinstall is to initially install FreeBSD and it serves this purpose quite well. However sysinstall is also the first thing a new user gets to see of FreeBSD. People which are use