Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:55:10 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <4EFCC59E.8050508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112291146190.34603@wonkity.com> References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <201112290952.06834.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org> <201112291204.01019.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112291146190.34603@wonkity.com>
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On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, >> etc.) >> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string >> would be >> one improvement. > > There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring two screens, or a third if you want alternate types. The shell on v3 is a good idea, and belongs in /usr/src/release/rc.local, where it already handles some things like this (including figuring out if the console is a serial port, which needs to be taken into account). -Nathan
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