Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:35:56 -0500 (EST) From: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912142330590.364-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net> In-Reply-To: <38571717.F25976F7@newsguy.com>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Hey, I like CUI. I'd rather install with a CUI than a GUI, all other > things being equal. And besides some quirks here and there, I really > like sysinstall. Its nice, but its not where it should be. > But the fact is that when we get featured in a magazine article, > user-friendly install == GUI. No GUI, it's not an user-friendly install. > End of review. You can kick and scream all you want, that's the way it > is. Either we live by these rules, or we loose. A VESA GUI based sysinstall replacement would probably be small enough to fit on a floppy, yet still have the friendlyness that a new user/reviewer would look for. If we follow jkh's outline, making another "front end target" for the script shouldn't be that hard. You have X, VESA Syscons, and Text Syscons. The script says "ok, prompt user for <blah>", under X it opens a window, under Text some ASCII dialog, and under VESA a little window. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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