Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 14:28:25 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, bora@wireless.stanford.edu, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install (was: Re: syscons driver) Message-ID: <702.820621705@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 06:34:09 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102063235.1093F-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
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> sounds like the configure script from perl-4.036. asks a bunch > of questions, searches out information, does some tiny compilies. then > lets the user edit a file containing all the data. You can actually do something like this now with the existing `scripting' abilities of sysinstall. Write a little Windows program that spits out the appropriate configuration data (see /usr/src/release/sysinstall/freebsd.cfg for my laptop's installation script file) after asking Joe User all kinds of questions. It's not that far off as it is! Jordan
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