From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 19:55:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EEF106566B; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:55:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754648FC0A; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:55:16 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LWZ00E0IE03XU00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.77.223]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LWZ008C0DZYJ020@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:55:10 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Warren Block Message-id: <4EFCC59E.8050508@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.77.223 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.12.29.194815, SenderIP=76.210.77.223 References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <201112290952.06834.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org> <201112291204.01019.jhb@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111213 Thunderbird/8.0 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool 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: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:55:16 -0000 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