Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall? Message-ID: <20050507163900.U55534@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <35441.24.71.0.233.1115224763.squirrel@imap.sd73.bc.ca> References: <9533da6c050503173261897e65@mail.gmail.com> <35441.24.71.0.233.1115224763.squirrel@imap.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Freddie Cash wrote: > What really needs to be done is to separate the installer from the > post-install configuration program. > > The OS installer should do nothing more than install the OS. Don't > configure anything other than the root password and an initial user. > Just copy the OS to the harddrive. Everything else (timezone, network > interfaces, packages, everything) should be done post-install, once > you have booted into the OS. All programs should be disabled until > the admin decides to enable them. Keep it simple, keep it quick. And > make it scriptable. This would be a serious regression for users which need to deploy freebsd roomfulls at a time. PXE boot and install over the network is something that is really important for a lot of people; Myself included. > If a GUI configuration program / package installer is needed, it > should be done as a separate project, completely unrelated to the OS > installer. Fair enough. > This is the biggest shortcoming, and albatross for, sysinstall. > sysinstall is a decent OS installer. But it's a horrible OS > configurator. And yet, for some reason, enough people have used it to > configure the OS that any calls for a new installer always seem to > come with a (IMO useless) requirement that is also be an OS > confiugration tool. Which is ludicrous if you think about it. Okay. When should we be expecting patches? ;-) Cheers, Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */
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