Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:35:48 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid Message-ID: <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4D20C8BF.701@freebsd.org> References: <4D20C8BF.701@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:49:35 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > As those of you who obsessively follow the SVN commit mails may have > noticed, I recently began work on a new installer, which I have > tentatively named 'bsdinstall'. You can find the code itself at > svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall and a wiki page > describing it at http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall. You may want to reconsider having single large distfiles: people still want to do ftp installs over dialup and having chunks of around 10MB or so would allow downloads to be re-tried if the connection fails. Some people think modern FreeBSD releases shouldn't be installed on anything other than modern hardware and technologies (i.e. broadband), but I disagree. -- Bruce Cran
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