From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 09:28:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5721065674 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:28:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB028FC08 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so4805272fxm.13 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:28:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SDdosm+6R6MCULql9byVUVQFstOqbSLHKNJUQgZDr8k=; b=b9HZjb61GqxM+987LTltEObo9CNvJ/jbwn3IYUFV1dTQykO6olndBlJDsdZu8JhvK6 rA0FI5fn/CXABptxTOGPS4HBVQdO8OwgsdSZ/c+/6YcM44A+E/TZ0h0gMGgEukFxzGkO s/AB+/M3okhmOmRbAcwB5dXKNc7JT5utvGbSw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L1bUyV2iNk9crigOD3mzAngkuVfzDzZqLqD7lbCGKs9/RwfRK868EzE9dVBwk6Bz/9 OILBG4mlCvOVzUuFwVAD6nGpmwOlDP+pwTIY2q/4x/a23Q9gWt6eF4mykRbBOg1wUSAj VQtWG0g9OfLArklRxaXj+jw+NP+NK12oPcndU= Received: by 10.223.118.136 with SMTP id v8mr3172569faq.90.1295170102382; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E3E8E.dip.t-dialin.net [87.142.62.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n2sm1157020fam.28.2011.01.16.01.28.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:28:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:28:18 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: <20110116102818.0667dd49@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> References: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Current , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:28:24 -0000 On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:26:43 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > As those of you who have been reading freebsd-sysinstall and > freebsd-arch know, I have been working for a few weeks on a lightweight > new installer named 'bsdinstall'. This is designed to replace sysinstall > for the 9.0 release. > > After two weeks of testing and bug fixes on the sysinstall list, I > believe this now has all required functionality and is ready to be > merged into the main source tree. I would like to do this on Tuesday, 18 > January. Switching this to be the default installer would happen a few > weeks after that, pending discussion on release formats with the release > engineering team. This should provide a sufficient testing period before > 9.0 and allow a maximal number of bugs to be discovered and solved > before the release is shipped. > > Demo ISO for i386: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110114.iso.bz2 > SVN repository: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall > Wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall > I installed this under VirtualBox yesterday. The only porblem I noticed was that adding a user didn't actually work, although it appeared to do so (it asked at the end of the process whether all data for the new user were correct and then claimed to have added the user). Looking at /etc/passwd and in /home after booting the new installation showed that the user was never added. Otherwise it was a smooth install, although I didn't try anything fancy and just used the quick install and the entire disk for simpicity. -- Gary Jennejohn