Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:15:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Frank Tegtmeyer <fte-sub-freebsd-stable@fte.to>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sysinstall options Message-ID: <20030124061329.P39012-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <200301221349.26134.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Syphers wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:04 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > There is no replacement for sysinstall. There has been talk about > > writing a replacement for sysinstall for as long as I can remember. > > (When I got started with FreeBSD the latest release was 3.1) > > So far this much desired and much talked about replacement has yet to > > materialize. > > They've been talking about a replacement since JKH wrote sysinstall, since it > was never meant to be a permenant solution. > > However, a replacement won't just "materialize." People need to write it. Some > people are - http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html. Sysinstall was intorduced in the 2.0 tree (if not from the beginning, very close, I remember using it to do 2.0a SNAP installs). Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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