Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:30:02 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <4EFCE9EA.7040900@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFCD2D8.50505@cran.org.uk> References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org> <4EFA7FD4.10600@freebsd.org> <201112290952.06834.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org> <4EFCD2D8.50505@cran.org.uk>
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On 12/29/11 12:51, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 29/12/2011 16:37, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and especially >> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people who are old >> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally positive >> comments on the user experience. Patches would be even more >> appreciated, since real life has intervened to steal most of my >> FreeBSD time. > > There was talk in the past that any future installer should be based > around the pc-sysinstall backend - has there been any progress towards > moving bsdinstall to it? > There has not been much. My free time evaporated, and I haven't had the ability to work on this. I heard from some people at iX a while back, but I don't know what their progress is. There are a relatively small number of relatively major things that would need to be rewritten on both sides (e.g. the pc-sysinstall partition editor is x86-only and the bsdinstall one is premised around letting the kernel do pre-commit staging). There's a relatively bare wiki page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/PCBSDInstallMerge for those interested. -Nathan
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