From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 11 22:02:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7FB16A41F for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:02:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D16343D67 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:02:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2005 22:02:23 -0000 Received: from p50838879.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO sol) [80.131.136.121] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 11 Dec 2005 23:02:23 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5707313 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:02:21 +0100 From: Marius N_nnerich To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051211230221.6b87a2a0@sol> In-Reply-To: <439B5907.4010809@fubar.geek.nz> References: <439B5907.4010809@fubar.geek.nz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:13:20 +0000 Subject: Re: BSDInstaller Beta 2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:02:25 -0000 On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:03 +1300 Andrew Turner wrote: > I am pleased to announce the second release of FreeBSD install CD's > based on the BSD Installer. Hi, thanks for your work. I did a quick test and found that * I can deselect every distribution and accept that "selection", this obviously didn't work to install. I think there should at least be a hint that base is required. * The window to select the distributions is called "Select Packages" * /README is missing * kern.geom.debugflags is set to 16. Is this to allow to manipulate slice and partition information while the disk is mounted? If so, isn't there a better way (mounting the disk after editing those tables)? * The ISO should imo contain a portsnap snapshot and not only ports.tgz * Maybe for src the appropriate checkouts file for cvsup * fdisk and bsdlabel are called very often?! * Did I miss where to install the standard MBR instead of the menu one? * The selected keymap is not written to /etc/rc.conf of the new system? So far I like the Installer. Maybe one day someone integrates a graphical frontend for the installer (eg. like desktopbsd) :) regards Marius