From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 12:05:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A26C16A48F for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1404D43D45 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:05:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so476862uge for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 05:05:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Dk0W51Psn+jgY2g9wklQsNcR82pR6WyVpiTcuD5YA16GvyZcYn/1OSaYZP793EVPZJstoTqXTWZcc/4mu/mWzvztIf2bImM9HO9B9Cj/GFygpPXgHZu75bCcVrDSUdUOGWfKpVG3FlvEgkgb7l6KohMMnovg9kU7ruks8yQ2SJ4= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr3935426ugg; Mon, 15 May 2006 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.lan ( [212.143.154.227]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q40sm10231518ugc.2006.05.15.05.05.05; Mon, 15 May 2006 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:05:04 +0300 From: Rostislav Krasny To: Andrew Turner Message-Id: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:05:10 -0000 Hi, > Julian Elischer has placed a gallery of the installation process at > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/ for people who > don't want to reinstall their computer. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/06.png Will BSDInstaller support PPPoE? It could be very useful for network installation over ADSL. Does BSDInstaller support network installation from FTP or NIS or even HTTP? http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/11.png Is it a low-level formatting? Why should one format a new hard disk before partitioning it? Does the pointer there reside at "Skip this step" by default? IMHO in all sentences like "Would you like to format this disk?" or "You may now partition this disk if you desire" the word "this" is better to be always changed to the disk name. On those screenshots it should be "ad0" ot "the ad0". By the way, does/will BSDInstaller support a DD (dangerously dedicated) disk mode? http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png I think this menu should be changed, so one could select not only the slice size but also where it begins. Ideally this should be defined by three numbers: 'start sector', 'end sector' and 'size in sectors'. Changing the 'size in sectors' should also change the 'end sector', and changing 'start sector' or 'end sector' should also change the 'size in sectors', automatically. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/24.png http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/25.png I think the word "formatted" on the second screenshot should be changed to "created", because fdisk doesn't format partitions/slices. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/22.png http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/26.png Does BSDInstaller support installtion on multiple slices or multiple physical disks? Sysinstall supports it. http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/33.png Isn't "Ports Collection" a better name than "Ports tree"? Thanks