Jay Chandler wrote:
Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via
PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-(
Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed
this, I'd like to hear about it.
This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 08:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
3) The largest complaint about sysinstall is that it's not graphical. The
problem is that a graphical installation program has some -severe-
constraints on it. First, it has to work in ALL instances. That means,
640x480x16 colors
Hey,
Please leave that to the desktop oriented BSD distributions. I wonder
how many server admins would like to see an X based installer.
Not me.
Bye,
Nejc
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Niek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
3) The largest complaint about sysinstall is that it's not graphical.
The
problem is that a graphical installation program has some -severe-
constraints on it. First, it has to work in ALL instances. That means,
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 08:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Robert Huff wrote:
(Personally, I think
Ivan Voras wrote:
Well, I'll make my statement too...
Two reasons AFAIK:
1. it simply doesn't even know how deal with the more modern features
like GEOM RAID, more advanced authentication mechanisms (nsswitch),
and devices like sound cards (there are many more in this list...)
Apart from
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via
PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-(
Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed
this, I'd like to hear about it.
This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've
The only real drawback I see in sysinstall is that at several stages you
cannot perceive what the previous part was and what the next step is.
There are times that you have to exit in order to continue.
Maybe an overall progress bar in plain text (eg Welcome - Select disk -
Select partitions
Jay Chandler wrote:
I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a
bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours?
Roughly speaking, I started with this document:
http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml
and this document:
Howard Jones wrote:
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via
PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-(
Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed
this, I'd like to hear about it.
This definitely
, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Robert Huff wrote:
(Personally, I think there are also points where
On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:19 AM, David Schulz wrote:
to be honest, i actually like the sys-install program. i did it so
many times, that i just fly trough the sys-install installation in
like a minute to do a plain basic installation. i also like the
fact that i can just use it via ssh from a
Ivan Voras wrote:
I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its
end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the
reasons or rationale behind this.
Two reasons AFAIK:
1. it simply doesn't even know how deal with the more modern
features like GEOM
- Original Message -
From: Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Robert Huff wrote:
(Personally, I think there are also points where the correct user
behavior
I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its
end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the
reasons or rationale behind this. Even today, sysinstall seems to work
extremely well as an easy-to-use, simple, and stable tool for the
installation of FreeBSD. None
Mark Lu writes:
So, why is there a move to find a replacement or something?
Software shouldn't be replaced for the sole reason of being old
if it works, right?
As I understand the discussion: among others, because there are
features people want to add that don't fit in the current
Mark Lu wrote:
I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its
end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the
reasons or rationale behind this. Even today, sysinstall seems to work
extremely well as an easy-to-use, simple, and stable tool for the
Robert Huff wrote:
(Personally, I think there are also points where the correct user
behavior is not intuitively obvious.)
An understatement. There are situations where sysinstall is positively
quixotic. I don't mind the simple character-based interface. But I do
find it worrying that I
Ivan Voras wrote:
Mark Lu wrote:
I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its
end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the
reasons or rationale behind this. Even today, sysinstall seems to work
extremely well as an easy-to-use, simple, and stable
19 matches
Mail list logo
