Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:35:45 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, simara@mail.cyberlink.com.pe Subject: Re: FreeBSD Grafical Installation Message-ID: <200007210135.SAA35940@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <00fc01bff2b1$23d8b0c0$0200000a@danco> from "Dan O'Connor" at "Jul 20, 2000 06:15:20 pm"
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[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > >> Is there any FreeBSD graphical installation tool? besides the textual > >> installation? > > > >None at the moment that I am aware of. > > > >> Any plans to develop one? > > > >Yes. It's being worked on, but is not yet ready for testing, there are > >no screenshots, etc. We hope to have it ready for 5.0 release. > > > Please, please, please, please don't make it's use mandatory! > > Some of us appreciate FreeBSD specifically for it's non-dependence on > GUIs... > > --Dan Don't worry, we aren't idiots. :) It's a general framework and scipting toolkit that allows you write scripts that use Qt in X and Turbo Vision dialogs in the console. However, more backends can be easily added. As for sysinstall's replacement itself, we are moving towards having a lot of the installation process scriptable so that it can be automated to whatever degree you prefer. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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