From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 12:46:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6E516A4CE for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179AC43D49 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A0269A71 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 15:46:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40AD0B12.6030203@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:46:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <006801c43bd4$49362fd0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> <20040518063855.62e20610.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20040518010309.GA50924@tao.thought.org> <40AD08AA.7080104@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <40AD08AA.7080104@laverenz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New work on installer? - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version - X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:46:39 -0000 Uwe Laverenz wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >> I think we (theBSD's) are losing a lot of serious brain >> brainpower (and certainly lots of latent high-end talent) >> by not having a less-headbanging install. I've done it >> literally dozens of times; I still get flummoxed now and >> then. > > I've been using sysinstall for many years and quite often I think. I > never thought that sysinstall or the installation of FreeBSD is a > problem in any way. In my opinion, installing FreeBSD is easy and fast. There _is_ a new next-gen installation program in the works for FreeBSD, but (like so many other open-source projects) it will only get done if people work on it. Recently, there hasn't been much interest in it. http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html If you feel strongly about improving the installer, join the project, encourage others to join, and consider sponsoring a developer to get some headway made on it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com