From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 07:05:43 2005 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 6B98616A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:05:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from mta206-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta206-rme.xtra.co.nz [210.86.15.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477D943D55 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:05:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.15.192]) by mta206-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20051212070540.NZMH8029.mta206-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz>; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:05:40 +1300 Received: from serv.int.fubar.geek.nz ([222.152.219.118]) by mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20051212070540.JHSC1416.mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz@serv.int.fubar.geek.nz>; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:05:40 +1300 Received: from [192.168.1.160] (unknown [192.168.1.160]) by serv.int.fubar.geek.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BC760DD; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:05:38 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <439D2148.2050406@fubar.geek.nz> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:05:44 +1300 From: Andrew Turner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius N_nnerich References: <439B5907.4010809@fubar.geek.nz> <20051211230221.6b87a2a0@sol> In-Reply-To: <20051211230221.6b87a2a0@sol> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller Beta 2 release 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, 12 Dec 2005 07:05:43 -0000 Marius N_nnerich wrote: >On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:03 +1300 >Andrew Turner 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.