From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 4:47:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from megadodo.segNET.COM (megadodo.segNET.COM [206.34.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E8615082 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 04:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from nightfall.digitalspark.net (arc6a203.bf.sover.net [209.198.85.204]) by megadodo.segNET.COM (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26990; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:46:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:47:43 -0500 (EST) From: Adam Strohl To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@sasknow.com, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-Reply-To: <199912151234.HAA51317@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > This is important to note... 25% of all the installs I do are > on MGA (remember monochrome graphics adapter - a hercules card.) True, hence there would be other display targets, ie; CUI, and I like Jordan's text-only non GUI idea, too. It doesn't really matter. The new sysinstall architecture should be such that it is completely indepentent of the UI (or lack there of). > So, I would not be in favor of any replacement that required a VESA > or VGA platform... I agree, this would not be a requirement, just another option. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message