Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:42:02 +0100 From: Sebastian Lederer <lederer@bonn-online.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <3857545A.201ED3CC@bonn-online.com> References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> <3856BD33.5DE1AB48@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > > Firstly, size: One of sysinstall's requirements is that it fit (along > > with a variety of other related commands) onto a floppy disk. Last > > time I checked, the /stand bundle (sysinstall + friends) was ~640K. > > The smallest X-server (XF86_VGA16) is 1.7MB (plus libraries). I don't > > have either Qt or Lesstif installed, but from previous dealings with > > Motif, it's several times the size of the Xserver. Unless we want to > > mandate the use of ZIP drives (or similar) as FreeBSD install > > floppies, we're limited to a syscons (or VTxxx) sysinstall. > > There is a device called cd-rom which more or less qualifies for the "or > similar" category you mention. It happens to be the most popular > installation media nowadays (though it probably comes second as far as > FreeBSD is concerned). > [...] Actually I started to write an X11-based installer some time ago. It was designed to boot off a CD, auto-detect mouse and graphics card and then start the appropriate X-Server in 640x480 mode. Then a series of dialogs popped up, asking the most important system parameters like which disk to install on, internet parameters and so on. Unto that point, it actually worked. You can see how it looked like at http://www.stud.fh-rhein-sieg.de/~sleder2s/totali.html . I ran out of spare time (and out of CD-Rs), however, when debugging the shell script that was supposed to do the actual install. Regards, Sebastian Lederer -- Sebastian Lederer lederer@bonn-online.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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