From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 6 09:29:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02873 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA02828 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA00728; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:28:45 -0800 (PST) To: Capriotti cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 11:10:25 -0200." <3.0.1.32.19980106111025.0068aeec@pop.mpc.com.br> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 09:28:45 -0800 Message-ID: <724.884107725@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Is there any plan to make a X based installation for FreeBSD ? Nope. Too much trouble and bootstrapping the user into an X server, even a 16 color one, is also a non-trivial exercise, especially from a 1.44MB boot floppy (though I suppose you could stay out of X until you got your media pipe open and could suck over a 2nd-stage install and its infrastructure). In any case, every one of the other 5000 or so times this exact same question has come up, I've generally said the same thing: If somebody really feels like they have the cojones to sit down and implement something like this, submitting a viable proof-of-concept to me or anyone else on the FreeBSD development team, we'll be more than happy to look at it! Jordan