Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 02:23:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010120223.TAA13034@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Oct 11, 2000 06:47:43 PM
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> Custom is for people who don't want anything in their face, they know
> exactly what they're doing and exactly what sysinstall is capable of
> at any given time. If people are getting that confused by this then
> I'll happily remove custom from the set of options and make all of you
> go through the Standard installation whether you like it or not. :-)
Speaking of doing something like this...
What's the chance of including a Windows-based installer,
and an Autorun.inf on the CDROM?
Think about it: what's less "in your face" to a Windows user,
than a Windows installer?
I think the following would work... it would add a "Configure..."
and an "Install..." to the right-button menu, when used on the
FreeBSD CDROM.
This assumes a "setup.exe" in the root of the CDROM drive, as
well as just the Autorun.inf. It also assumes that the setup.exe
has an icon in it, that icon 1 is the FreeBSD setup icon, and
that the program can take the command line arguments "/AUTORUN",
"/CONFIGURE", and "/INSTALL". You can leave these off, if they
are identical. You can also add/remove right-button menu options,
as you see fit.
To do the disk manipulation, you will need to obtain a level 3,
then a level 1 volume lock on the disk you want to manipulate;
this should let you partition things.
I'd actually suggest getting "Partition Magic" to provide a
version for FreeBSD, or to fix file system stacking (same old
rant, there) to permit a "test drive" version that boots from
an entire FreeBSD system in "C:\FreeBSD\root", or if you don't
insist on a seperate "/usr", swap, and so on, just "C:\FreeBSD".
The partition magic approach would make it more likely that the
user would leave FreeBSD alone, once installed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
[autorun]
OPEN=setup.EXE /AUTORUN
ICON=setup.EXE,1
shell\configure=&Configure...
shell\configure\command=setup.EXE /CONFIGURE
shell\install=&Install...
shell\install\command=setup.EXE /INSTALL
[ProductFeatures]
Feature1=UNIXFiles
[ProductInformation]
; Make up a product code; set the suffix to your ethernet address
; instead of 112233445566. Note: all digits are hex.
ProductCode={00000000-0000-0000-0000-112233445566}
DisplayName=FreeBSD 4.1.1
Version=4.1.1
;Make this be 1 to do autorun even if the product is installed.
AutorunIfInstalled=1
[InstallMSI]
;Make this be zero to aways suppress installing Windows installer
InstMsi=0
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Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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