Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 06:08:45 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: install@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: It's time to release.. The worms! Hahahahaha! Message-ID: <199412291408.GAA04544@time.cdrom.com>
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Got a can opener right here! [grabs can, opener, sticks tongue out of one side of mouth in concentration and starts in on it]. "roik..roik..roik..roik..roik..roik..*pop*... (we're free!).. *slither*.." There we go! One open can of worms! Yuck! Yup, it's time to open that old worm can with the words "FreeBSD Installation" written on it, I'm afraid! I want to know what all of you think about where the FreeBSD install should go. I'd like to hear where you think it shines and where it sucks. I'd like to hear what you think any sensible person with half a brain ought to be able to do with it and to it. >From these multiple streams of consciousness, twilite-zone suggestions, heated arguments and occasional spats of petty nitpicking, I hope to derive some sort of "want / don't want" list of features and ideas for the 2.1 installation. Just between you and me, I don't expect the installation to be anywhere near finished until 2.2, but I'd like to get most of the bug and simple enhancement requests done for 2.1. To give you a feel for timelines, if you want a voice in what happens for the FreeBSD 2.1 install, the time to talk about it is NOW. I plan multiple dry runs here, so the snapshot program I've already talked about will contain many of the ideas we discuss over the next few weeks actually implemented as ALPHA quality code. The rush now is to save us the rush later, when we can much less afford it. Let's try and do most of our testing in advance this time instead of *after* the release, as we usually do! :-) We should also try to focus our discussions into two very rough catagories: 1. sysinstall and how the whole disk prep / network boot / install-from-DOS situation should be handled. People would also be WELL advised to try a Linux installation at least once, just to see what they're capable of. 2. FreeBSD administration and initial user setup. I forsee that the installation will, for reasons of space on the boot floppy if nothing else, still consist of a low-level "get a little bootstrap on the disk with a minimum setup" stage and a user mode "binist" high level installation phase. For most purposes, we can discuss them seperately. All interested parties form up on the install@freebsd.org mailing list please! You know the drill.. Talk to majordomo.. :-) Thanks! Jordan
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