Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:52:09 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-hackers@mawer.org> To: Curtis Penner <curtis.penner2@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jan6146@gmail.com Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <486C0699.6070006@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <486BFE3B.3040509@gmail.com> References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <486BFE3B.3040509@gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Curtis Penner wrote:
> Let us take this further.
...
> When you do a system install it is like jumping back to the 80's. The
> front-end is like something from the DOS days. You have to be tech
> savvy to know what you want to do.
...
> I am looking forward to a time when installing BSD is point and click
> with not much understanding of what is going on (unless I want to go
> advance and do special custom work).
Ivan Voras has done some great work on addressing this with his finstall
project:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall
http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall
--Antony
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?486C0699.6070006>