From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 22:30:10 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 8C9941065676; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:30:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2DA8FC0A; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:30:09 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LWZ00604L66DH00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:30:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.77.223]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LWZ000BKL62QK10@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:30:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:30:02 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4EFCD2D8.50505@cran.org.uk> To: Bruce Cran Message-id: <4EFCE9EA.7040900@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.77.223 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.12.29.221516, SenderIP=76.210.77.223 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> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111213 Thunderbird/8.0 Cc: Lawrence Stewart , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ron McDowell , Doug Barton 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 22:30:10 -0000 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