From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 10:21:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA10581 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA10574 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xqMZW-0002I6-00; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:20:50 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA20052; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:20:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199801081820.LAA20052@harmony.village.org> To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: X based Free installation Cc: tom@sdf.com (Tom), capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:26:34 GMT." <199801072126.OAA08825@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199801072126.OAA08825@usr06.primenet.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 11:20:47 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199801072126.OAA08825@usr06.primenet.com> Terry Lambert writes: : Now with all this said, it IS possible to make non-graphical installs : that do this. The Windows 3.1 install is a good example. But such : examples do not abound in the real world; they are few and far between. I think that a sysinstall-tng could be made to do these things. Personally, I'd rather see it come up with just three choices: Novice, Express and Custom. It should then walk you through things for these things. Maybe having an advanced choice as well for all the other cool things that sysintall lets you do now. Maybe I'll get some time to play with this, but not likely. :-(. Too many neat ideas, and not enough time to implement them. Warner