Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:05:44 +1300 From: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> To: Marius N_nnerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller Beta 2 release Message-ID: <439D2148.2050406@fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <20051211230221.6b87a2a0@sol> References: <439B5907.4010809@fubar.geek.nz> <20051211230221.6b87a2a0@sol>
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Marius N_nnerich wrote: >On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:03 +1300 >Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> wrote: > > > >>I am pleased to announce the second release of FreeBSD install CD's >>based on the BSD Installer. >> >> > >Hi, > >thanks for your work. > >I did a quick test and found that > >* I can deselect every distribution and accept that "selection", > this obviously didn't work to install. I think there should at > least be a hint that base is required. > > Thanks, I've added a note pointing out base is important. >* The window to select the distributions is called "Select Packages" > > Corrected the name. >* /README is missing > >* kern.geom.debugflags is set to 16. Is this to allow to manipulate > slice and partition information while the disk is mounted? If so, > isn't there a better way (mounting the disk after editing those > tables)? > > I needed it to install the mbr but dosn't appear to be needed anymore. >* The ISO should imo contain a portsnap snapshot and not only > ports.tgz > > I will when it is availiable in the release Makefile as it is outside the scope of this. >* Maybe for src the appropriate checkouts file for cvsup > >* fdisk and bsdlabel are called very often?! > > Talk to the main BSDInstaller developers about that. >* Did I miss where to install the standard MBR instead of the menu one? > > No, there is currently no way of doing it. >* The selected keymap is not written to /etc/rc.conf of the new system? > > I'll look into it. > >So far I like the Installer. >Maybe one day someone integrates a graphical frontend >for the installer (eg. like desktopbsd) :) > > As the frontend and backend are seperate processes it is possible to write a graphical frontend.
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