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 instance
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
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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 co
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 I've
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 work
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:
http://people.
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
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
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
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?
>
>
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 r
, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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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
- 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 t
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 l
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
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 som
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
> instal
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