Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:12:22 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? Message-ID: <4278CA36.6080600@offmyserver.com>
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Travis Poppe wrote: > Hello all, > > For quite some time I've been looking forward to seeing sysinstall go > and be replaced with a new system that's user interface agnostic. This > would allow developers to create a user interface of their choice > without having to muck around with the internals of the installer. It > seems that one of the major reasons this hasn't happened yet is simply > due to lack of development. > > Correct me of I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what BSD > Installer (the DragonFly team's installer) currently does. Other than > "political" disagreements, are there really any good reasons for us > not to look into using BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? > I believe either FreeSBIE or LiveBSD (FreeBSD LiveCD distributions) > has already included the BSD Installer in a recent release. Scott Ullrich indeed ported it to FreeSBIE. > I know Scott Long has posed this idea to the list in the past. BSD > Installer would provide the framework needed to make bells and > whistles such as graphical installers and so forth much more likely in > the future. If there are some out there who dislike the interface > provided by BSD Installer, I don't think it would be too difficult to > write a sysinstall lookalike UI for their system. > > Please visit http://www.bsdinstaller.org if any of you are interested. > > Thanks, > > -Travis Poppe This is something on my TODO list and is something I've been working on somewhat recently. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of May / beginning of June. --Devon
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